FORESTRY CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT

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FORESTRY CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENT

• Georgia FFA Association
• Written by John Allen Bailey
• Central Region Agriculture Education Office
• June 2003
• Published by Georgia Agricultural Education
  Curriculum Office
• Georgia Department of Education

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OBJECTIVES

• Teach the practical applications of natural
  resource management practices
• Learn management skills through hands-on
  activities and competitions
• Teamwork
• Decision making skills
• Environmental impact of management decisions
• Importance of conservation and sustained yield

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ELIGIBILTY

• FFA members in grades 9-12
• 9th graders that participated in Area or State
  Natural Resources CDE will be ineligible for the
  same year
• 11 members per team
• Top 2 Area Forestry CDE Teams advance to state
• Team Activity Members cant be members of other
  state winning teams

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RULES

• All General Rules apply
• 11 members with 4 designated for the Team
  Activity (State CDE ONLY)
• Participants should be prepared for adverse
  weather conditions
• Judges will be assigned to the 10 events.
  Contestants should stay with their group the
  entire time.
• Written material will be furnished at the CDE

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RULES

• Members are not to remove any of the material
  from the event site.
• A member can only participate in 1 event
• Time Limits
• Area CDE 45 minutes
• State CDE 60 minutes
• Team Activity 90 minutes
• Decision of the judges is FINAL

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EQUIPMENT

• Each Participant will need
• 1 Clipboard (free of notes)
• 2 pencils
• Non-programmable calculator (optional)
• His/Her Measuring Devices

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STATE FORESTRY TEAM ACTIVITY

• Only at State CDE
• 4 eligible members
• If exam is given the top 3 scores will be added
  for the team score
• 90 minutes allowed for this part

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INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES Reforestation

• Participants plant a designated number of
  seedlings at a designated spacing
• Judge gives spacing at event
• Planting is graded on the following factors
• (10 points each)
• Removing seedlings from bag or bale
• Keeping the seedlings roots moist
• Placement of seedlings in hole

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Reforestation

• Depth of planting
• Straightness of seedlings
• Time taken to plant
• Minus 1 point per minute and ¼ point per 15
  seconds
• Spacing (20 points)
• Usually 2 rows of 5
• 10 measurements taken
• 2 points for each seedling within 3 allowance
• 10 question test (20 points)

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Reforestation

• Common Mistakes
• Errors on Exam
• Incorrect planting depth
• Incorrect Spacing
• Not Closing Planting Hole Properly
• Tiebreakers
• Time deduction then oral questions

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Timber Stand Improvement

• Students are given a situation concerning the
  management objective. The situation will
  include
• Markets Available
• Wildlife and Aesthetics Considerations
• Present Condition of Stand
• Final Goal of Plan
• 20 Trees will be marked
• Students will decide whether to Harvest, Leave or
  Deaden each tree

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TSI

• A Reason is given for each tree
• Future Crop Tree Leave
• Non-merchantable Deadened
• Wildlife/Aesthetic Leave if that is part of
  management objective
• Insect Infestation Harvest
• Disease Harvested if Canker covers 50 of
  circumference of tree
• Lack of Vigor and/or Growth, Suppressed and/or
  Restricted crown or Spacing - Harvested

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TSI

• Crooked, Forked, Malformed or Leaning Harvested
  if the above is severe
• Other
• Lightning Struck Trees
• Wind Damaged
• Mechanical
• (If there is a question of the survivability of
  the tree until the next scheduled cut Harvest)
• More than 1 reason can be given

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TSI Scoring

• Each tree is 5 points
• 3 points for correct Harvest, Leave or Deaden
• 2 points for correct Reason
• Tiebreakers are the 3 Best Seed Trees, Crop Trees
  or Wildlife Aesthetic Trees
• Common Mistakes
• Removing too many trees
• Not examining the entire tree
• Mechanical injuries diagnosed as diseases

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Timber Cruising for Cord Volume

• Students will measure the Total Height and
  Diameter of 10 trees to determine the volume for
  this activity
• D-tape, Loggers Tape and Clinometer can be used
  in this activity
• Volume Tables and a Weight Factor will be given
• Diameters are rounded to the nearest inch
  (example 8.4 8 8.79)
• Total Heights are rounded DOWN to the nearest
  5-foot increment. (7470)

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Cord Volume Scoring

• 100 points for this activity
• 3 points for each correct diameter
• 3 points for each correct height
• 35 points for correct volume in cords with a 1
  point deduction for each 1 or the correct
  volume
• 5 points for correct tonnage with a 1 point
  deduction for each 5 percent or the correct
  tonnage

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Cord Volume

• Tiebreakers
• Tonnage
• Number of Correct Diameters
• Number of Correct Heights
• Oral Reasons
• Common Mistakes
• DBH not taken at 41/2
• Not Rounding Correctly (Diameters and Heights)
• Not using Terminal Bud for Height Measurement
• Misreading Volume Table
• Mathematical Errors

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Timber Cruising for Board Feet Volume

• Students will measure 10 trees for this activity
• Loggers Tape, D-Tape and Clinometer can be used
• Volume Table, Weight Factor, acreage cruised and
  DIB at first 16 log will be given to students
• Diameters are rounded to nearest inch
• Heights should be measured from a 6 stump height
  to an estimated 8-inch diameter cut off for the
  merchantable height. Disregard all defects
  except forks.
• Heights should be rounded DOWN to the nearest 8
  or ½ log (example 46 2 ½ logs)

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Board Foot Volume Scoring

• 100 points for this activity
• 3 points for each correct diameter
• 3 points for each correct height
• 5 points for correct Form Class
• Example dib at the top of the first 16 log is
  11.5 and the dbh is 15
• 11.5 divided by 15 .766 rounded to .77
• .77 X 100 77 Form Class

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Board Foot Volume

• 30 points for correct board foot volume per acre.
  1 point will be deducted for each 1 percent or
  from the correct volume.
• 5 points for the correct tonnage/acre. 1 point
  will be deducted for each 5 percent or from
  the correct tonnage.
• Tiebreakers
• Total tons
• Correct diameters
• Correct heights

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Board Foot Volume

• Common Mistakes
• Measurements of dbh not 4 ½ feet
• Diameters not rounded to nearest inch
• Heights not rounded down to nearest ½ log
• Inaccuracy of 8 top
• Mathematical errors
• Leaving Form Class in decimal form

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Tree Identification

• Participants will be required to identify, by
  common names, a designated number of specimens
  from the official tree list found in the GA FFA
  CDE Handbook.
• Specimens can be full trees, freshly cut foliage,
  limbs, fruit, pressed leaves, photographs of
  leaves, fruit, nuts, cones, by-products or any
  other part of the tree.

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Tree Identification Scoring

• 100 points for this activity
• The complete common name should be reproduced
  exactly as the official list with capital letters
  where appropriate. No credit for partially
  correct names. Clearly correct, but misspelled
  names receive half credit.

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Tree Identification

• Tiebreakers
• Samples from the Official List will be used
• Oral questions
• Common Mistakes
• Incorrect spelling
• Poor handwriting
• Capitalization
• Confusing oaks and pines

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Ocular Estimation

• 10 Trees will be selected for this activity
• No Instruments can be used
• Participants will estimate the diameter to the
  nearest inch and the total height to the nearest
  5 foot (Round DOWN)
• Students cannot be closer than 5 feet to tree
• Each tree should be classified in one of the
  following classes
• Pulpwood Minimum 6 dbh

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Ocular Estimation

• Chip-N-Saw 9 12 dbh with a clear log
• Sawtimber 13 and over dbh with a clear log
• Scoring
• Total of 100 points for this activity
• 4 points for correct diameter
• 2 points for diameter / 1 inch
• 3 points for correct height
• 2 points for height / 5 feet
• 3 points for correct product

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Ocular Estimation

• Tiebreakers
• Correct diameters
• Correct heights
• Correct products
• Mistakes
• dbh not taken at 4 ½ feet
• Not rounding heights down to nearest 5 foot
• Terminal bud not used for height
• Looking at trees from only one side

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Land Measurement

• Participants will determine acreage and draw a
  map of a plot to the nearest .001 of an acre by
  pacing
• Graph paper will be furnished
• Students need a hand compass and non-programmable
  calculator
• All computations should be shown on the graph
  paper or score sheet
• Directions should be expressed as bearings and
  distances should be to the nearest foot

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Land Measurement Scoring

• 100 total points for this activity
• 1 point will be deducted from 90 for each .01acre
  deviation from the correct acreage
• 10 points for map drawing
• 2 points for North orientation
• 2 points for drawing to scale
• 2 points for labeling (distances and bearings)

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Land Measurement

• 2 points for closure
• 2 points for neatness
• Tiebreakers
• Nearest .001 of an acre
• Common Mistakes
• Slope while pacing
• Pacing factor not accurate
• Reading wrong arrow on compass
• Reading wrong quadrant

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Land Measurement

• Un-level compass
• Metal objects near compass
• Declination not set
• Map not to scale
• Mathematical errors

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Hand Compass Practicum

• Participants will use a bearing hand compass and
  pacing to determine the bearings and distances of
  four designated lines.
• The compass course will have 4 different starting
  and ending points designated by numbers 1-4 and
  different colored flagging
• Azimuth compasses are not allowed
• Azimuth will be calculated by students
• Direction should be paced and expressed to the
  nearest foot

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Hand Compass Practicum

• Directions should be expressed in bearings
• Scoring
• 4 stations worth 24 points each
• 1 point deduction for 1 degree deviation from
  correct bearing
• 1 point deduction for each foot deviation from
  correct distance
• 1 point added at each station for correctly
  converting bearing to azimuth

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Hand Compass Practicum Scoring

• No more than 24 points can be deducted at any
  station. (12 points for distance bearing each)
• Tiebreakers
• Bearings
• Distances
• Azimuths

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Hand Compass

• Common Mistakes
• Slope while pacing
• Pacing factor not accurate
• Reading wrong arrow on compass
• Reading wrong quadrant
• Un-level compass
• Metal objects near compass
• Declination not set
• Map not to scale
• Mathematical errors

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Forest Management

• Students will be given a management objective for
  the stand
• This is a 2 person event worth 100 points
• Tools needed
• 10 factor Prism
• Loggers tape
• D-tape
• Clinometer
• Calculator

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Forest Management

• Participants will be required to address the
  following concerns of the designated stand and
  the following points will be allowed.
• Stand Classification 10 points
• Tree Species 10 points
• Basal Area 30 points
• Volume per Acre 10 points
• Problems in the Stand 15 points
• Cultural Operations Needed 15 points

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Forest Management

• Reproduction Method 10 points
• Tiebreakers
• Tons
• Oral reasons

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Tree/Forest Disorders

• Students will have to correctly identify 10 20
  examples from the Official Disorder List found in
  the GA FFA CDE Handbook.
• The complete common name should be reproduced
  exactly as it is given.
• Questions concerning alternate hosts, damage,
  habits, life cycle and control may be asked
• Activity is worth 100 points

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Team Scoring

• The total scores from all 10 events are added
  together. The team with the highest total score
  is declared the winner.
• 2 teams from each Area Forestry CDE advances to
  State Competition
• Only the 1st place team at State advances to
  National Competition
• Only 4 members from the State Team can compete at
  National

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Equipment List

• 75 or 100 Loggers tape (3)
• Diameter tape (3)
• Clinometers (3)
• 10 Factor Prism (1)
• Quadrant Compass (2)
• Planting Bar or Dibble (1)
• Planting Bag (1)
• Cruiser Vest (3)
• Land Measuring Compass (1)
• Ruler marked in 1/10 (1)
• Magnifying glass (1)
• Calculators (6)
• Clipboards (10)