CALIFORNIA RPF UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔50) What is forest duff? - ✔✔the partially decomposed organic material of the forest
floor beneath the litter of freshly fallen twigs, needles, and leaves -see litter
✔✔51) As used in log scaling, what is "shake"? - ✔✔a fissure or crack in a log or stem
that follows a growth ring for some distance 2. a longitudinal fissure or crack in lumber
resulting from stresses that caused the wood fibers to separate along the grain and not
extending in the converted piece from one surface to another -see growth stress 3.a thin
section split from a bolt used for roofing or weatherboarding -see shingle -see
windshake
✔✔52) As used in ecology, what is Tolerance? - ✔✔the capacity of an organism or
biological process to subsist under a given set of environmental conditions -note the
range of conditions under which it can subsist, representing its limits of tolerance, is
termed its ecological amplitude
✔✔53) Define Anaerobic as in anaerobic respiration. - ✔✔occurring in the absence of
free oxygen -see anoxic 2. living in the absence of molecular oxygen 3.growing in the
absence of molecular oxygen (such as anaerobic bacteria) 4. occurring in the absence
of molecular oxygen (such as a biochemical process) -see aerobic
✔✔54) As used in Forest Protection), what is an Endemic Pest? - ✔✔1. indigenous to
(native) or characteristic of a particular restricted geographical area - antonym exotic 2.
a disease constantly infecting a few plants throughout an area 3. a population of
potentially injurious plants, animals, or viruses that are at low levels -see epidemic
✔✔55) As used in Forest Aquatic Ecology (Geology), what is a Particle Size
Distribution? - ✔✔the fractions of the various soil separates (sand, silt, clay) in a soil
sample, often expressed as mass percentages
✔✔56) As used in the FPRs, what is the Road Prism? - ✔✔means all parts of a road
including cut banks, ditches, road surfaces, road shoulders, and road fills
✔✔57) How do the FPRs define a Diseased Tree? - ✔✔means trees which have
abnormal physiological conditions or structural changes that result in a substantial
adverse effect on the trees' health or threatens to spread the disease, thus threatening
the sustained health of surrounding trees. These conditions or structural changes
express characteristic signs or symptoms and are caused by identifiable biotic or abiotic
agents including, but not limited to, fungi, bacteria, insects, parasitic plants, vertebrates,
lightning, fire and mechanical wounds.
✔✔58) As used in Forest Engineering, what is Hot-logging? - ✔✔When logs are not
yarded into a landing area and decked but instead directly loaded onto a logging truck
,✔✔59) Describe the hydrologic cycle. - ✔✔the process of evaporation, transpiration,
vertical and horizontal transport of vapor, condensation, precipitation, interception,
runoff, infiltration, percolation, storage, the flow of water from continents to oceans, and
return
✔✔60) As used in Forest Ecology, what is a Dioecious tree? - ✔✔Dioecious means two
houses and refers to when the male and female reproductive organs occur in separate
plants.
✔✔61) In a forest stand, the trees that form the general level of the forest canopy and
receive full light from above, but comparatively little from the sides are silviculturally
classed as - ✔✔Co-dominant
✔✔62) According to the CCR, an approach to harvesting based on the retention of
structural elements or biological legacies (trees, snags, logs, etc.) from the pre-harvest
stand for integration into the post-harvest stand to achieve various ecological, social
and geomorphic objectives is called - ✔✔Variable Retention
✔✔63) The Forest Practice Rules and regulations define "functional wildlife habitat" as
having three basic features. List these three features - ✔✔Capable of supporting
reproduction, feeding and movement between habitat Possible referring to Functional,
composition, structure
✔✔64) List any four of the seven characteristics used to determine erosion hazard
ratings under the Calif. Forest Practice Rules - ✔✔
✔✔65) Briefly describe (three) 3 identification characteristics of California black oak. -
✔✔Large leaves with 6-8 deep lobles, bristle tip on leaf end, deciduous, large acorn
✔✔66) List three (3) silvics of California black oak. - ✔✔Regrows from sprouts
(coppice), does not produce acorns for 30 years or abundant acorns for 100 years, slow
growing
✔✔67) What is the difference between a stand's arithmetic mean diameter and its
quadratic mean diameter? - ✔✔QMD = Sq root of x d^2 AMD = Sum of xd/x
✔✔68) For northern California, list three salmonids that have been placed on the
Federally Threatened or Endangered - ✔✔Coho, steelhead, chinook
✔✔69) Define the term frost heave. - ✔✔the upward displacement of normal soil levels
or of road courses as a result of ex pansion due to ice formation in frozen soil
-note in nurseries and plantations , it may cause the partial or total extrusion of
seedlings or other small plants
,✔✔70) What California law requires forest practice regulations to address archeological
resources? - ✔✔CEQA
✔✔71) Armillaria species (mellea) (oak root rot) is endemic in California. What are two
ways by which you can decrease the prevalence of this problem in a forest setting? -
✔✔Replant with resistant species
Remove dead trees/stumps
✔✔72) List three (3) signs of Armillaria species (mellea) on commercial forest trees. -
✔✔Mycelium growing between bark+cambium, loss of leaves prematurely, fruiting
fungal bodies near stump base
✔✔73) The total assimilation of energy and nutrients by an organism or a plant
community per unit of time is called
___________________ production. - ✔✔Gross primary
✔✔74) The difference between the greater volumes actually sawn in a mill over the
lesser estimated log scale volume is - ✔✔Overrun
✔✔75) A plant specified by law as being undesirable, troublesome and difficult to
control is called a - ✔✔Noxious weed
✔✔76) List FOUR (4) of the genera Fagaceae found in North America. - ✔✔Quercus,
notholithocarpus, fagus, chrysolepis
✔✔77) Hydric (or hygric) is a term pertaining to a wet or moist climate. The term
pertaining to an environment THAT is dry or has little moisture is ___________ and the
term pertaining to an environment with a moderate supply of moisture is
_______________. - ✔✔xeric
mesic
✔✔78) If one subtracts the present value of costs from the present value of benefits, the
residual is Called - ✔✔Present Net Worth or Net present value
✔✔79) A scale of 1: 6,000 translates to how many feet on the ground per inch on a
map? - ✔✔6000/12 = 500
✔✔80) In the California Code of Regulations, trees with well-developed crowns
extending above the general level of the forest canopy and receiving full light from
above and partly from the sides are termed - ✔✔Dominants
, ✔✔81) By what taxation process is the cost of roads recovered by the forest enterprise?
- ✔✔Capital expenditures / amortization.
✔✔82) On a cable logging system, explain the purpose of the mainline. - ✔✔1. the line
used in cable yarding to bring logs to the landing
✔✔83) What is the difference between DBH, DOB, and DIB? - ✔✔Diameter at breast
height standing tree, diameter outside bark on log measured at small end and diameter
inside bark
✔✔84) The process whereby a tree or other vegetation loses vigor and may die when
growing space is not sufficient to provide light for photosynthesis or moisture to support
adequate growth is called - ✔✔Suppression
✔✔85) In harvesting, a self-propelled machine, usually self-loading, that transports
trees or logs by carrying them completely off the ground is called a - ✔✔Forwarder
✔✔86) Differentiate between an obligate and facultative species of plant. - ✔✔Obligate
restricted to a specific environment or growing conditions while a facultative species
thrives in many
✔✔87) Given a true bearing of due east, or 90° between points A and B, and a
magnetic declination of 01.00° W, state the magnetic bearing or azimuth reading. -
✔✔90 + (1) = 91
When converting from true bearing to magnetic bearing.
West is best so add
East is least so subtract
If converting from magnetic bearing to true bearing do the opposite.
✔✔88) A composite organism formed from the symbiotic association of a true fungus
and algae is a - ✔✔Lichen
✔✔89) In forest fires and other larger public emergencies within the US, a particular
organizational system is used to manage the facilities, personnel, participating
organizations, equipment and other resources and needs of the emergency. Name this
organizational system. (Do not abbreviate) - ✔✔Incident Command System
✔✔90) According to the California Forest Practice Regulations (FPR), the area on
which timber operations are being conducted as shown on the map accompanying the
Timber Harvesting Plan, and within 100 feet, as measured on the surface of the ground,
from the edge of the traveled surface of appurtenant roads owned or controlled by the
timberland owner, timber operator or timber owner, and being used during the
harvesting of the particular area, is called the - ✔✔Logging area
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔50) What is forest duff? - ✔✔the partially decomposed organic material of the forest
floor beneath the litter of freshly fallen twigs, needles, and leaves -see litter
✔✔51) As used in log scaling, what is "shake"? - ✔✔a fissure or crack in a log or stem
that follows a growth ring for some distance 2. a longitudinal fissure or crack in lumber
resulting from stresses that caused the wood fibers to separate along the grain and not
extending in the converted piece from one surface to another -see growth stress 3.a thin
section split from a bolt used for roofing or weatherboarding -see shingle -see
windshake
✔✔52) As used in ecology, what is Tolerance? - ✔✔the capacity of an organism or
biological process to subsist under a given set of environmental conditions -note the
range of conditions under which it can subsist, representing its limits of tolerance, is
termed its ecological amplitude
✔✔53) Define Anaerobic as in anaerobic respiration. - ✔✔occurring in the absence of
free oxygen -see anoxic 2. living in the absence of molecular oxygen 3.growing in the
absence of molecular oxygen (such as anaerobic bacteria) 4. occurring in the absence
of molecular oxygen (such as a biochemical process) -see aerobic
✔✔54) As used in Forest Protection), what is an Endemic Pest? - ✔✔1. indigenous to
(native) or characteristic of a particular restricted geographical area - antonym exotic 2.
a disease constantly infecting a few plants throughout an area 3. a population of
potentially injurious plants, animals, or viruses that are at low levels -see epidemic
✔✔55) As used in Forest Aquatic Ecology (Geology), what is a Particle Size
Distribution? - ✔✔the fractions of the various soil separates (sand, silt, clay) in a soil
sample, often expressed as mass percentages
✔✔56) As used in the FPRs, what is the Road Prism? - ✔✔means all parts of a road
including cut banks, ditches, road surfaces, road shoulders, and road fills
✔✔57) How do the FPRs define a Diseased Tree? - ✔✔means trees which have
abnormal physiological conditions or structural changes that result in a substantial
adverse effect on the trees' health or threatens to spread the disease, thus threatening
the sustained health of surrounding trees. These conditions or structural changes
express characteristic signs or symptoms and are caused by identifiable biotic or abiotic
agents including, but not limited to, fungi, bacteria, insects, parasitic plants, vertebrates,
lightning, fire and mechanical wounds.
✔✔58) As used in Forest Engineering, what is Hot-logging? - ✔✔When logs are not
yarded into a landing area and decked but instead directly loaded onto a logging truck
,✔✔59) Describe the hydrologic cycle. - ✔✔the process of evaporation, transpiration,
vertical and horizontal transport of vapor, condensation, precipitation, interception,
runoff, infiltration, percolation, storage, the flow of water from continents to oceans, and
return
✔✔60) As used in Forest Ecology, what is a Dioecious tree? - ✔✔Dioecious means two
houses and refers to when the male and female reproductive organs occur in separate
plants.
✔✔61) In a forest stand, the trees that form the general level of the forest canopy and
receive full light from above, but comparatively little from the sides are silviculturally
classed as - ✔✔Co-dominant
✔✔62) According to the CCR, an approach to harvesting based on the retention of
structural elements or biological legacies (trees, snags, logs, etc.) from the pre-harvest
stand for integration into the post-harvest stand to achieve various ecological, social
and geomorphic objectives is called - ✔✔Variable Retention
✔✔63) The Forest Practice Rules and regulations define "functional wildlife habitat" as
having three basic features. List these three features - ✔✔Capable of supporting
reproduction, feeding and movement between habitat Possible referring to Functional,
composition, structure
✔✔64) List any four of the seven characteristics used to determine erosion hazard
ratings under the Calif. Forest Practice Rules - ✔✔
✔✔65) Briefly describe (three) 3 identification characteristics of California black oak. -
✔✔Large leaves with 6-8 deep lobles, bristle tip on leaf end, deciduous, large acorn
✔✔66) List three (3) silvics of California black oak. - ✔✔Regrows from sprouts
(coppice), does not produce acorns for 30 years or abundant acorns for 100 years, slow
growing
✔✔67) What is the difference between a stand's arithmetic mean diameter and its
quadratic mean diameter? - ✔✔QMD = Sq root of x d^2 AMD = Sum of xd/x
✔✔68) For northern California, list three salmonids that have been placed on the
Federally Threatened or Endangered - ✔✔Coho, steelhead, chinook
✔✔69) Define the term frost heave. - ✔✔the upward displacement of normal soil levels
or of road courses as a result of ex pansion due to ice formation in frozen soil
-note in nurseries and plantations , it may cause the partial or total extrusion of
seedlings or other small plants
,✔✔70) What California law requires forest practice regulations to address archeological
resources? - ✔✔CEQA
✔✔71) Armillaria species (mellea) (oak root rot) is endemic in California. What are two
ways by which you can decrease the prevalence of this problem in a forest setting? -
✔✔Replant with resistant species
Remove dead trees/stumps
✔✔72) List three (3) signs of Armillaria species (mellea) on commercial forest trees. -
✔✔Mycelium growing between bark+cambium, loss of leaves prematurely, fruiting
fungal bodies near stump base
✔✔73) The total assimilation of energy and nutrients by an organism or a plant
community per unit of time is called
___________________ production. - ✔✔Gross primary
✔✔74) The difference between the greater volumes actually sawn in a mill over the
lesser estimated log scale volume is - ✔✔Overrun
✔✔75) A plant specified by law as being undesirable, troublesome and difficult to
control is called a - ✔✔Noxious weed
✔✔76) List FOUR (4) of the genera Fagaceae found in North America. - ✔✔Quercus,
notholithocarpus, fagus, chrysolepis
✔✔77) Hydric (or hygric) is a term pertaining to a wet or moist climate. The term
pertaining to an environment THAT is dry or has little moisture is ___________ and the
term pertaining to an environment with a moderate supply of moisture is
_______________. - ✔✔xeric
mesic
✔✔78) If one subtracts the present value of costs from the present value of benefits, the
residual is Called - ✔✔Present Net Worth or Net present value
✔✔79) A scale of 1: 6,000 translates to how many feet on the ground per inch on a
map? - ✔✔6000/12 = 500
✔✔80) In the California Code of Regulations, trees with well-developed crowns
extending above the general level of the forest canopy and receiving full light from
above and partly from the sides are termed - ✔✔Dominants
, ✔✔81) By what taxation process is the cost of roads recovered by the forest enterprise?
- ✔✔Capital expenditures / amortization.
✔✔82) On a cable logging system, explain the purpose of the mainline. - ✔✔1. the line
used in cable yarding to bring logs to the landing
✔✔83) What is the difference between DBH, DOB, and DIB? - ✔✔Diameter at breast
height standing tree, diameter outside bark on log measured at small end and diameter
inside bark
✔✔84) The process whereby a tree or other vegetation loses vigor and may die when
growing space is not sufficient to provide light for photosynthesis or moisture to support
adequate growth is called - ✔✔Suppression
✔✔85) In harvesting, a self-propelled machine, usually self-loading, that transports
trees or logs by carrying them completely off the ground is called a - ✔✔Forwarder
✔✔86) Differentiate between an obligate and facultative species of plant. - ✔✔Obligate
restricted to a specific environment or growing conditions while a facultative species
thrives in many
✔✔87) Given a true bearing of due east, or 90° between points A and B, and a
magnetic declination of 01.00° W, state the magnetic bearing or azimuth reading. -
✔✔90 + (1) = 91
When converting from true bearing to magnetic bearing.
West is best so add
East is least so subtract
If converting from magnetic bearing to true bearing do the opposite.
✔✔88) A composite organism formed from the symbiotic association of a true fungus
and algae is a - ✔✔Lichen
✔✔89) In forest fires and other larger public emergencies within the US, a particular
organizational system is used to manage the facilities, personnel, participating
organizations, equipment and other resources and needs of the emergency. Name this
organizational system. (Do not abbreviate) - ✔✔Incident Command System
✔✔90) According to the California Forest Practice Regulations (FPR), the area on
which timber operations are being conducted as shown on the map accompanying the
Timber Harvesting Plan, and within 100 feet, as measured on the surface of the ground,
from the edge of the traveled surface of appurtenant roads owned or controlled by the
timberland owner, timber operator or timber owner, and being used during the
harvesting of the particular area, is called the - ✔✔Logging area
