Official Pre-Qualifying Exam Fact Sheet
Official Qualifying Exam Fact Sheet
Send questions to the coaches regarding the exam topics below.
Coaches' emails are listed under their topics.
Dendrology, Botany and Forest Ecology
UNC - Plant Information Center
Schafael & Weakley 1990 - Third Approximation
Silviculture, Site Index, and Soils PowerPoint Presentation
Silviculture_Terminology
Silvics of North America: Vol1 - Conifers ; Vol 2 - Hardwood
Jim McCarter
Forest Pests Pathology and Entomology website
USDA FS Diseases of the Southern Region
The web site above is a good companion to the book,
Insects and Diseases of Trees in the South (October 1999)
Major Southern Forest Diseases
Rob Trickel
Wood Anatomy and Identification
Link to USFS Forest Products Lab Website for Wood ID and Properties
Link to download USDA FS technical publications on line
Fire PowerPoint Presentation
A Shelterwood-Burn Technique for Regnerating Productive Upland Oak Sites in Piedmont Region
Using Prescribed Fire to Regenerate Table Mountain Pine in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
A Stand-Replacement Prescribed Burn in Sand Pine Scrub
Fire and the origin of Table Mountain pine - pitch pine communities in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA
Modeling Spatial Patterns of Fuels and fire Behavior in a Longleaf Pine Forest in the Southeastern USA
Prescribed fire, snag population dynamics, an avian nest selection
Ligntning-Season Burning: Friend or Foe of Breeding Birds?
Minimizing Wildlife Risk Publication
Jimmy Dodson
Forest Genetics PowerPoint Presentation
Southern Pine Seed Sources
USDA Hardiness Zones Map
Ken Roeder
Mensuration Handout
Bronson Bullock
Forest Economics PowerPoint and Forest Economics Extension publication
Mark Megalos
Forest Taxation and Timber Tax Website
NC Present-use Propetry Tax Program Extension publication
Rick Hamilton
Forest Management
USDA Service Forester's Handbook
Uneven-Aged Silviculture of Pine
Southern Hardwood Management
Joe Cox
Forest Wildlife Management Key Concepts List
Chris Moorman
NC Best Management Practices Manual
Will Summer
Emerging Issues in Forestry
Forest Certification
Cultural Resources
Biomass, Bioenergy
Carbon Sequestration
References List
Useful textbook, pubs and web pages list
Extension Forestry Management Publications
USDA Hardiness Map
NCRS Soils Maps
Soil Orders
Forestry Handbook
Exam sample questions from the NC Board of Registration for Foresters
Contact email for Kelley McCarter to cover any other issues relating to the review session or this on-line study guide. Tell me how to make it better and I will do my best ASAP and shoot it out to all other participants.