Learn: Forest Facts Multimedia
From the Central Hardwood Virtual Forest CD, produced by the Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry and Ecologik, Inc.
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David Bauman - Collections Botanist at Indianapolis Zoo
Introduction
Classifying Plants Using Dichotomous Keys
How Do Forests Develop and How Do Humans Affect Them
How Humans and Animals Use Plants
How to Classify Organisms
Naming Species by Reading the Leaves
Plants Are Our Friends
Plants Roles in Our Ecosystem
What is Plant Life?
What Plants are Poisonous?
What Types of Plant Life Live in a Forest?
Don Foley - Sawmill Industry Representative
Introduction
How is the Wood Used?
Sawmill Byproducts
How the Wood is Prepared for Use
Trees Are a Renewable Resource
Why Trees Need to be Harvested
Janet Eager - District Forester
Introduction
Are We Running Out of Trees?
How are Forests Managed
How is Forest Growth Managed
The Forest is Everchanging
There are Several Types of Forests
John Perry - Urban Forestry Specialist
Introduction
Does the Urban Environment Stress Trees?
How to Establish an Urban Forest
Supporting the Urban Forest
Trees Add More Than Just Beauty
Trees Need Care After Planting
What is Urban Forestry?
Where Should Trees be Planted in an Urban Setting?
Why are Urban Forests Important?
Phil Marshall - Forest Entomologist & Pathologist
Introduction
Controlling Insects
Disease Due to Fungus and Bacteria
How These Diseases are Spread
Insects Can be Helpful to Trees
Insects Can be Harmful to Trees
Some Insects are Good Guys
Types of Diseases
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Determining Soil Composition
How to Measure a Tree
How to Measure Slope
How To Plant a Tree
How Trees Form Their Rings
Images (These images are in .jpg format.)
American Elm Leaf
Basswood Leaf
Beech Leaf
Bitternut Hickory Leaf
Black Ash Leaf
Black Cherry Leaf
Black Maple Leaf
Black Walnut Leaf
Black Willow Leaf
Blue Ash Leaf
Box Elder Leaf
Buckeye Leaf
Bur Oak Leaf
Butternut Leaf
Chinkapin Oak Leaf
Cottonwood Leaf
Dogwood Leaf
Hackberry leaf
Hawthorn Leaf
Honeylocust Leaf
Hornbeam Leaf
Ironwood Leaf
Mulberry Leaf
Pin Oak Leaf
Redbud Leaf
Red Elm Leaf
Red Maple Leaf
Red Oak Leaf
River Birch Leaf
Shagbark Hickory Leaf
Shumard Oak Leaf
Silver Maple Leaf
Sugarberry Leaf
Sugar Maple Leaf
Swamp Oak Leaf
Sycamore Leaf
White Ash Leaf
White Oak Leaf
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Forest Facts
Appraising Fire Effects
Central Hardwood Forest Types
Choosing a Silvicultural Sytem
Deer Damage in Central Hardwoods
Diagnosing Forest Vegetation for Air Pollution Injury
Ecological Principles
Factors Influencing Water Resources
Forest Insect Defoliators
Forest Regulation Methods
Improving Quality and Value of Future Hardwoods
Introduction to Forest Growth and Yield
Logging Damage
Management Practices and Water Quality
Principles of Managing Stands
Principles of Wildlife Habitat Management
Root Rots
The Central Hardwood Forest
Trunk Decays
Wildlife
The American Woodcock
The Bobcat
The Bobwhite Quail
The Cardinal
The Cottontail Rabbit
The Fox Squirrel
The Franklin's Ground Squirrel
The Gray Fox
The Gray Squirrel
The Indiana Bat
The Mink
The Opossum
The Racoon
The Red Fox
The Ruffed Grouse
The Striped Skunk
The Weasel
The White-Tailed Deer
The Wild Turkey
The Woodchuck
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