MAINE GUIDE EXAM MANUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Sugar Maple - ✔✔historically, was used to make parts for sleighs, sleds, pungs (low,
one horse box sleighs) and buggy shafts.
✔✔Silver Maple - ✔✔In Maine, most common along major rivers.
✔✔Striped Maple - ✔✔Moosewood, short tree that loves shade, often found growing
with other hardwoods.
✔✔Mountain Maple - ✔✔Grows as a tree, seldom over 30 feet in height.
✔✔Norway Maple - ✔✔Native to Europe, casts great shade and was used to be a
shade and street tree, but now is considered a serious threat to native flora.
✔✔Boxelder, Ash-leaf maple - ✔✔Short lived, fast growing, brittle tree that is prone to
wind and ice damage, can be invasive.
✔✔Paper, white or canoe birch - ✔✔Used to make toothpicks and golf tees, historically
one of the most valuable trees in Maine.
✔✔Gray Birch - ✔✔Short lived and not particularly valuable tree, used primarily for pulp
and firewood, small tree that only reaches 20-30 feet in height.
✔✔Yellow Birch - ✔✔The largest of its native type, growing up to 3 feet in diameter and
70-85 feet in height. One of Maine's most valuable timber trees and makes good
firewood.
✔✔Sweet, black or cherry birch - ✔✔Found in the southern third of the state.
Wintergreen oil used to be made from the branches and bark.
✔✔mountain paper birch - ✔✔Often found along the coast and at high elevations, often
not considered distinct from other species that looks and shares a similar name.
✔✔eastern hophornbeam or ironwood - ✔✔The name refers to the fruit that resemble
hops.
✔✔American hornbeam, blue beech, or musclewood - ✔✔Occurs west of the
Penobscot, small, slow growing tree that inhabits wet woods or the edges of swamps
and streams.
, ✔✔Speckled Alder - ✔✔Very common in Maine, often growing in wet areas and
sometimes in pastures. Usually occurs as a shrub but sometimes as a small tree, no
taller than 20 feet.
✔✔American Beech - ✔✔Occurs statewide, growing up to 70 feet tall, sometimes forms
pure stands, other trees can shoot up from the roots. Bark disease can cause significant
mortality in Maine, when an insect, the ____ scale insect invades and alters bark and
fungus gets in. Nuts are sweet and an important food source for wildlife (bears will climb
to get them)
✔✔Northern red oak - ✔✔Most common of the species in Maine,
✔✔Black oak - ✔✔Found in southern Maine
✔✔Scarlet oak - ✔✔Occurs rarely in the southern tip of Maine
✔✔Bear oak - ✔✔Small, thicket forming, shrubby tree usually less than 20 feet high.
✔✔White oak - ✔✔Wood is strong, heavy, hard and durable, making it ideal for boat
building, flooring, and furniture.
✔✔Chestnut oak - ✔✔Occurs only in the southern tip of Maine,
✔✔Bur oak - ✔✔Has an edible fruit, found in southern two thirds of the state, used for
cabinetry, fences, barrels, and hardwood flooring.
✔✔Swamp white oak - ✔✔Small and not abundant, occurs in small, widely scattered
grooves in York and Androscoggin counties.
✔✔American Chestnut - ✔✔Most of these trees have been destroyed by ____ blight
fungus, but there are national efforts to develop a blight resistant tree.
✔✔White ash - ✔✔One of Maine's most valuable timber trees, found commonly
throughout the state.
✔✔Green or red ash - ✔✔Occurs commonly along rivers,
✔✔Black or brown ash - ✔✔Used for interior finishing, cabinet work, baskets, and to a
limited extent, pulp.
✔✔American basswood or linden - ✔✔In Germany is called the bee tree because bees
make a good grade of honey from the flowers. Also, the young fruit and flowers ground
into a paste make a great substitute for chocolate.
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Sugar Maple - ✔✔historically, was used to make parts for sleighs, sleds, pungs (low,
one horse box sleighs) and buggy shafts.
✔✔Silver Maple - ✔✔In Maine, most common along major rivers.
✔✔Striped Maple - ✔✔Moosewood, short tree that loves shade, often found growing
with other hardwoods.
✔✔Mountain Maple - ✔✔Grows as a tree, seldom over 30 feet in height.
✔✔Norway Maple - ✔✔Native to Europe, casts great shade and was used to be a
shade and street tree, but now is considered a serious threat to native flora.
✔✔Boxelder, Ash-leaf maple - ✔✔Short lived, fast growing, brittle tree that is prone to
wind and ice damage, can be invasive.
✔✔Paper, white or canoe birch - ✔✔Used to make toothpicks and golf tees, historically
one of the most valuable trees in Maine.
✔✔Gray Birch - ✔✔Short lived and not particularly valuable tree, used primarily for pulp
and firewood, small tree that only reaches 20-30 feet in height.
✔✔Yellow Birch - ✔✔The largest of its native type, growing up to 3 feet in diameter and
70-85 feet in height. One of Maine's most valuable timber trees and makes good
firewood.
✔✔Sweet, black or cherry birch - ✔✔Found in the southern third of the state.
Wintergreen oil used to be made from the branches and bark.
✔✔mountain paper birch - ✔✔Often found along the coast and at high elevations, often
not considered distinct from other species that looks and shares a similar name.
✔✔eastern hophornbeam or ironwood - ✔✔The name refers to the fruit that resemble
hops.
✔✔American hornbeam, blue beech, or musclewood - ✔✔Occurs west of the
Penobscot, small, slow growing tree that inhabits wet woods or the edges of swamps
and streams.
, ✔✔Speckled Alder - ✔✔Very common in Maine, often growing in wet areas and
sometimes in pastures. Usually occurs as a shrub but sometimes as a small tree, no
taller than 20 feet.
✔✔American Beech - ✔✔Occurs statewide, growing up to 70 feet tall, sometimes forms
pure stands, other trees can shoot up from the roots. Bark disease can cause significant
mortality in Maine, when an insect, the ____ scale insect invades and alters bark and
fungus gets in. Nuts are sweet and an important food source for wildlife (bears will climb
to get them)
✔✔Northern red oak - ✔✔Most common of the species in Maine,
✔✔Black oak - ✔✔Found in southern Maine
✔✔Scarlet oak - ✔✔Occurs rarely in the southern tip of Maine
✔✔Bear oak - ✔✔Small, thicket forming, shrubby tree usually less than 20 feet high.
✔✔White oak - ✔✔Wood is strong, heavy, hard and durable, making it ideal for boat
building, flooring, and furniture.
✔✔Chestnut oak - ✔✔Occurs only in the southern tip of Maine,
✔✔Bur oak - ✔✔Has an edible fruit, found in southern two thirds of the state, used for
cabinetry, fences, barrels, and hardwood flooring.
✔✔Swamp white oak - ✔✔Small and not abundant, occurs in small, widely scattered
grooves in York and Androscoggin counties.
✔✔American Chestnut - ✔✔Most of these trees have been destroyed by ____ blight
fungus, but there are national efforts to develop a blight resistant tree.
✔✔White ash - ✔✔One of Maine's most valuable timber trees, found commonly
throughout the state.
✔✔Green or red ash - ✔✔Occurs commonly along rivers,
✔✔Black or brown ash - ✔✔Used for interior finishing, cabinet work, baskets, and to a
limited extent, pulp.
✔✔American basswood or linden - ✔✔In Germany is called the bee tree because bees
make a good grade of honey from the flowers. Also, the young fruit and flowers ground
into a paste make a great substitute for chocolate.
