Glossary
Forestry and Conservation Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential forestry and conservation professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key forestry and conservation professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in forestry and conservation professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Biodiversity
- Variety of life.
- Carbon sequestration
- Storing carbon in forests.
- DBH
- Diameter at breast height.
- Field camp
- Intensive field course.
- Forest inventory
- Measuring trees and stands.
- Habitat
- Where species live.
- Invasive species
- Harmful non-native species.
- Prescribed fire
- Planned burning.
- Remote sensing
- Satellite or drone data.
- SAF
- Society of American Foresters.
- Silviculture
- Managing forest growth.
- Stand
- Group of similar trees.
- Tenure
- Permanent status.
- Watershed
- Land draining to a water body.
- Wildland-urban interface
- Where homes meet wildland.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Forestry and Conservation Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Forestry and Conservation Professor training.
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