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Sustainable Forestry

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High schoolers evaluate a forest for timber harvest and discuss potential impacts of logging. In this sustainable forestry lesson plan, they work in groups in a forested plot to choose trees to cut based on species and stem diameter and then discuss the potential impacts to the forest if the chosen trees were removed.

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logging, forestry, timber, regeneration, sustainability

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Grade
9th - 12th
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Science
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