Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Transportation of logs to the
mill in early lumbering was by _____.
a. | floating logs in
flumes | c. | floating down
rivers | b. | by logging railroads | d. | all of these are correct |
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The sugar maple is the state
tree for all listed states except ____.
a. | Vermont | b. | Oregon | c. | Wisconsin | d. | West Virginia |
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The first state to undertake
public forest administration was ______.
a. | Illinois | b. | Oregon | c. | Vermont | d. | New York |
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The Great Timber Cut occurred
in the Great Lakes States in the____.
a. | 1840’s | b. | 1890’s | c. | 1920’s | d. | 1940’s |
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The U.S. Forests Products
Laboratory is located in _______.
a. | Madison, WI
| c. | Washington,
D.C. | b. | Los Angeles, CA | d. | St. Louis, MO |
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The first state east of the
Mississippi River to have national forest land dedicated in 1908 was _____.
a. | Kentucky | b. | New York | c. | Florida | d. | Pennsylvania |
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The president who dedicated the
greatest forest acreage was _____.
a. | Franklin
Roosevelt | c. | Woodrow
Wilson | b. | Theodore Roosevelt | d. | Dwight Eisenhower |
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The first American university
to establish a school of forestry was ______ university.
a. | Boston | b. | Yale | c. | Princeton | d. | Cornell |
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The first chief of the U.S.
forest service was ____.
a. | Gifford
Pinchot | c. | John
Burroughs | b. | John Muir | d. | Aldo Leopold |
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For sheer loss of human life
the ____ fire in 1871 rates as one of the worst forest disaster.
a. | Tillamook | c. | Maine | b. | Cloquet | d. | Peshtigo |
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All of the following are major
causes of forest destruction except ______.
a. | excessive
cutting | c. | forest
fires | b. | insects & diseases | d. | conservation |
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The state ranking number one in
paper making of those listed is ____.
a. | Minnesota | b. | Wisconsin | c. | Washington | d. | Oregon |
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All are in the world’s
great coniferous forest region except _____.
a. | Europe | c. | North America | b. | Siberia | d. | South America |
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All are areas containing
tropical rain forests except _____.
a. | The Amazon area of South
America | c. | Southeast
Asia | b. | The Congo area of Africa | d. | Southern Europe |
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The civilian conservation corps
started in 1933 was in operation for _____ years.
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A government organizations of
the late 30’s and early 40’s that hired young men to do work such as planting trees was
the ______.
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The original forest areas in
the United States covered about ____ of the total land area.
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18.
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To become a professional
forester requires _____ years.
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The legendary logger of the
north woods was _____.
a. | John
Henry | c. | Johnny
Appleseed | b. | Pecous Bill | d. | Paul Bunyan |
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Petrified forest national
monument was proclaimed a park in ______.
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Petrified forest national
monument park is located in central ______.
a. | Arizona | b. | California | c. | Colorado | d. | New Mexico |
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The largest & perhaps the
oldest living trees are ______ found in certain parts of the Pacific Region.
a. | Sequoia | c. | Western Hemlock | b. | Douglas Fir | d. | Ponderosa Pine |
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The U.S. forest service has the
responsibility for managing _____ national forests.
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The type of forest fire that
burns the upper portion of trees is known as a ____ fire.
a. | surface | b. | crown | c. | flank | d. | spot |
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The first fire tower is America
was located in the state of _____.
a. | Oregon | b. | Maine | c. | Wisconsin | d. | Georgia |
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Trees for tomorrow
environmental center located in ______ is nationally recognized for its environmental education
programs.
a. | Des
Moines | c. | International falls
| b. | Eagle
River | d. | Huron |
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Several of the first forest tax
laws were enacted by _____ & ______.
a. | Wisconsin &
Minnesota | c. | Washington &
Oregon | b. | Maine & New York | d. | Wisconsin & Michigan |
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Penn’s ordinance that
required a settler to leave one acre in timber for every five aches cleared was started in ____.
a. | Virginia | b. | Pennsylvania | c. | Wisconsin | d. | Georgia |
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