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Lytle - APES Ch 13 Vocab

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show The formal process by which the actual practices of specific corporations or government agencies are compared with practices that we believe to be consistent with sustainability. As practiced today, it is as much an art or a craft as it is a science.  
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clear-cutting   show
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show Trees that are fairly common, sharing the canopy or top part of the forest.  
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dominants   show
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wilderness   show
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show A nontechnical term often used to mean a virgin forest(one never cut) but also used to mean a forest that has been undisturbed for a long but usually unspecified time.  
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plantation   show
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show Functions performed by ecosystems tat improve other forms of life i other ecosystems. Examples include the cleansing of the air by trees and removal of pollutants from water by infiltration through the soil.  
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show Time between cuts of a stand or area of forestry.  
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second-growth forest   show
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seed-tree cutting   show
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show Practice of cutting some but not all trees leaving others to be cut for later use. Some are left to provide seed for future generations.Some left for wildlife habitat & recreation.  
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shelterwood-cutting   show
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show The practice of growing trees and managing forests, traditionally with an emphasis on the production of timber for commercial sale  
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site quality   show
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show An informal term used by foresters to refer to a group of trees.  
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strip-cutting   show
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show In forestry, tree species growing in the understory, beneath the dominant and intermediate species  
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show Effort to manage a forest so that a resource in it an be harvested at a rate that does not decrease the ability of the forest ecosystem to continue to provide that same rate of harvest indefinitely.  
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thinning   show
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show In forests, they are plants forming a layer of growth below dominants.  
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