WOODED AREAS SECTION
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Questions 68 - 82:
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68. What purpose do the wooded areas serve?
69. Who uses the wooded areas?

A. Classes?
B. School Clubs?
C. Student Athletes?
D. Students Outside of Class?
E. Staff?
F. Community Members?

70. How often are the wooded areas used (e.g. every day for one hour, once a week for 20 minutes)?
71. What types of wooded areas does your school have (e.g., upland hardwoods, pine-oak, bottomland hardwoods, mixed mesophytic, nonnative landscaping trees)?
72. What percentage of wooded areas is:

A. Early Successional (e.g., shrubs and saplings)?
B. Young Forest (e.g. pole timber, small diameter)?
C. Mature Forest (e.g. logs, large diameter)?
D. Climax Forest (e.g., trees over 200 years old, never cut)?
E. Explain how you determined your answer.

73. What plant species are growing in your wooded areas?
74.

How would you rate your forest health? Please explain your answer.

*High – 15 or more different native tree species per acre; exotic invasive species covering less than 10% of area; less than 10% of trees damaged by weather, or with dead or dying branches, holes in the trunk due to insect borers, mushrooms or fungi growing on the trunk, bleeding cankers (sores) on the trunk, loose or missing bark, or with disease vectors (leaf miners, blight, gypsy moth); all three layers of structural diversity (e.g., floor, understory, canopy)

Medium – between 6-14 different native tree species, exotic invasive species covering 10-25% of area; 10-25% of trees damaged by weather, or with dead or dying branches, holes in the trunk due to insect borers, mushrooms or fungi growing on the trunk, bleeding cankers (sores) on the trunk, loose or missing bark, or with disease vectors (leaf miners, blight, gypsy moth); only two layers of structural diversity (e.g., floor, understory, canopy)

Low – 5 or less different native tree species; exotic invasive species covering more than 25% of area; more than 25% of trees damaged by weather, or with dead or dying branches, holes in the trunk due to insect borers, mushrooms or fungi growing on the trunk, bleeding cankers (sores) on the trunk, loose or missing bark, or with disease vectors (leaf miners, blight, gypsy moth); only one layer of structural diversity (e.g., floor, understory, canopy)

75. What fertilizers and pesticides (including type, quantity and frequency) are applied to the wooded areas?
76. How is the need for pesticides and fertilizers for the wooded areas determined?
77. How are the wooded areas managed (e.g., no logging, thinning, pruning, selected cutting, clear-cutting, wildlife habitat, recreation)?
78. How are products from the wooded areas used (e.g., left in forest for all to enjoy, logs, saplings or fruits sold to community, turned to mulch for school grounds, recreation use permit)?
79. What animal species live in and around the wooded areas?
80. Are your wooded areas huntable?
81. What non-living features are found in the wooded areas (e.g., equipment, shelters, trails, signage)?
82. From what materials (e.g., arsenic-free wood, recycled materials, materials imported a great distance, trail surface) are these non-living features made?

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