Preliminary:Forestry

[amerikestrel]

so pretty much the questions are random?

It's just like ornithology, but with trees not birds.

[tuftedtitmouse12]

oh...so like ornithology, they would give you some topics that they might ask you questions in, such as for birds, migration and habitat? but like with tree stuff, so like stuff about the trees?

[Wadhk]

so.... is there Dendrochronology on the tests?

[tuftedtitmouse12]

whats that?

[amerikestrel]

oh...so like ornithology, they would give you some topics that they might ask you questions in, such as for birds, migration and habitat? but like with tree stuff, so like stuff about the trees?

Yup, tree stuff. I'd imagine the event will focus mostly on anatomy and physiology, systematics and classification, and ethnobotany.

[amerikestrel]

whats that?

http://tinyurl.com/63pd58a

[Wadhk]

whats that?

Study of tree rings (like dating stuff with tree rings)

[tuftedtitmouse12]

lol..thanks wadhk and amerikestrel...and kestrel, that looks pretty hard...like a lot of stuff...oh well, might as well start learning over the summer...THANKS!

[thedoctor]

So if my partner and I wanted to try and prepare over the summer (since we know nothing about trees), should we just focus on learning to ID regional trees and other miscellaneous info about them?

[Tramsarran]

In the event do we actually get to see the trees/parts of trees or do we just have to look at pictures of trees? It doesn't seem too hard to get actual samples of bark, leaves, etc in addition to pictures.