Teacher Information!

1. Teacher Information! • Necessary materials: • PowerPoint Guide

2. Our Forests and Their Products Pgs 235-242 in Ch.19 of Managing Our Natural Resources Rangelands, Forests, & Fire

3. Students will be able to… • Define forest • Describe the six forest regions in the U.S.

4. The 1st Forestry Industry in the U.S. • Began with the 1st European to set foot in North America  Leif Ericson • Leif and his Vikings established logging camps in northeastern Canada • Harvested wood  shipped back to Europe • 600 years prior to the settlers of Jamestown

5. Forests • Occur where moisture is sufficient for tree growth • Arid regions like the Great Plains  too dry to support forests • Complex community of trees and other organisms  forest • House = tree, city = forest • A housing development ≠ city • Clump of trees ≠ forest

6. Forest: Friend and Enemy • Dense forests made farming & settlement difficult • But trees supplied materials for houses, forts, and ships • Source of wild game and fruit

7. Forests Today • 749 million acres in the U.S. forested = 1/3 of the U.S. • 2/3 of this = commercialforest • 250 million acres of commercial forest are actually usable • 1/3 (250 million acres) = noncommercial forest • Commercial  Forest that has economic potential

8. Who owns commercial forestland? • Private landowners  58% • Government  28% • Forest product industries  27% • Weyerhauser, Kraft, Union-Camp • Maine & New Hampshire > 80% forested • Nebraska & North Dakota < 2% forested

9. What trees are used in forestry? • Two general kinds  • Softwoods • Gymnosperms = conifers • Douglas fir, blue spruce, yew • Hardwoods • Angiosperms = flowering, broad-leafed trees • Oak, maple, beech, apple, cherry • Most timber production  softwoods

10. U.S. Forest Regions • Different species of trees have different requirements • Different environmental conditions forest regions • Climate • Altitude • Soil type • 6 forest regions in continental U.S.

11. U.S. Forest Regions • West Coast • Western • Central • Tropical • Northern • Southern

12. U.S. Forestry Regions • Hawaii and Alaska have their own four regions • Coast • Interior • West • Dry

13. West Coast • Pacific Ocean • Central California  Canadian border • Most productive forest region • About 48 million acres • Produces > 25% of annual U.S. lumber production

14. Douglas Fir Coast Redwood Western Red Cedar Sitka Spruce Sugar Pine Lodgepole Pine Incense Cedar Port Oxford Cedar White Fir Red Alder Bigleaf Maple West Coast Tree Species

15. Western • Mountainous regions • From Canada to Mexico in the western states (west of the Dakotas and eastern Texas) • Produces ~ 27% of U.S. lumber

16. Ponderosa Pine Idaho White Pine Sugar Pine Douglas Fir Engelmann Spruce Western Larch White Fir Incense Cedar Lodgepole Pine Western Red Cedar Aspen Western Region Tree Species

17. Central • New York State to northern Georgia • West to Texas • North to Minnesota • Much of this region has been cleared for crops • Very diverse region

18. Shortleaf Pine Virginia Pine Red Oak White Oak Hickory Elm White Ash Black Walnut Sycamore Cottonwood Yellow Poplar Black Gum Red Maple Sweet Gum Central Region Tree Species

19. Tropical • Southern tips • Florida • Texas • Smallest forest region in U.S.

20. Tropical Region Tree Species • Mahogany • Bay Tree • Mangrove

21. Northern • From Maine south along the mountains to Georgia • Northern Michigan • Northern Minnesota • Largest forest region in North America (extends across Canada and Alaska) although small in U.S.

22. Eastern White Pine Red Spruce Black Spruce White Spruce Norway Pine Jack Pine Balsam Fir White Cedar White Ash Basswood Tamarack Eastern Hemlock Aspen Beech Red Oak White Oak Yellow Birch Black Birch Sugar Maple Northern Region Tree Species

23. Southern • Coast of Virginia to eastern Texas • North to Missouri • Very productive forest due to highly fertile soil

24. Loblolly Pine Longleaf Pine Shortleaf Pine Slash Pine Bald Cypress Sweet Gum Black Gum Hickory Southern Red Oak White Oak Pin Oak Live Oak Willow Yellow Poplar Cottonwood White Ash Southern Region Tree Species

25. Review • Define forest • Describe the six forest regions in the U.S.