CDE Handbook - Florida FFA Association

Middle School Forestry CDE
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13, T 7S, R 13E?
– What is the distance between point A & B?
3. Legal descriptions will be written or described according to
the following examples:
– NW---------------Northwest
– T------------------Township
– SE----------------Southeast
– R------------------Range
– S------------------Section (640 acres)
– ¼-----------------Quarter of a section (160 acres)
4. Thirty (30) minutes will be allowed for this session.
5. Ten (10) or 20 questions or problems will be completed.
6. Ten (10) points (10 questions) or five (5) points (20
questions) will be awarded for each correct answer.
Compass and Pacing (100 points)
1. The contestant will use a hand compass and pacing to
simulate the determination of the property lines on a tract
of timber for cruising timber. The compass course will have
ten (10) marked points. The student will start at any point
and record the compass azimuth reading and distance to
the next point.
2. Students must use the compasses supplied at the contest by
the event judge. These compasses will be graduated in two
degree (2º) increments and be attached to wooden stakes.
3. Thirty (30) minutes will be provided for this session.
4. A total of 100 points are possible: Ten (10) points for each
correct numbered site. Five (5) points will be awarded for
the correct azimuth and five (5) points for correct distance.
Partial credit will be given with a deduction of one point
for each two degrees or two feet the participant is off the
correct answer.
Scoring
General Knowledge 100 points
Dendrology 100 points
Equipment Identification 100 points
Forest Disorders 100 points
Timber Cruising For Wood Volume 100 points
Map Interpretation or Compass and Pacing 100 points
TOTAL 600 points
Tie Breakers
Ties will be broken by using the scores from the General
Knowledge test first, then if needed the tree identification, and
then if still needed the Equipment Identification.
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Awards
The top three contestants in each of the following areas will be
given special recognition.
• General Knowledge/Management
• Dendrology
• Equipment Identification
• Forest Disorders
• Timber Cruising
• Alternate Forestry application
Awards will be presented at an awards ceremony. Awards are
presented to teams as well as individuals based upon their
rankings. Awards are sponsored by a cooperating industry
sponsor(s) as a special project and/or by the general fund of the
Florida FFA Foundation.
References
This list of references is not intended to be inclu¬sive. Other
sources may be utilized and teachers are encouraged to make
use of the very best instructional materials available. The
following list contains references that may prove helpful during
event preparation.s
• Introduction to Forestry in Florida, Florida Division of
Forestry
• Florida Division of Forestry web page, http://www.
fl-dof.com
• Choices in Silviculture for American Forests, 1981.
Society of American Foresters, 5400 Grosvenor Lane,
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
• Elementary Forestry, B. McManar Collins and Fred M.
White, Reston Publishing Company, In., Reston, VA
• Forestry Handbook, 1984, Edited by Karl Wenger for
the Society of American Foresters, 5400 Grosvenor
Lane, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
• Forests and Forestry, 4th Edition, 1990. David
A. Anderson, I.I. Holland and Gary L. Rolfe, the
Interestate Printers Publishers, Inc., Danville, IL
• Managing Our Natural Resources, 1988 Wm. G. Camp
& Thomas R. Daugherty, Delmar Publishers, Inc.,
Albany, NY
• Silvics of Forests of United States, Handbook #271, U.S.
Forest Service, P.O. Box 2417, 12th and Independence
Avenue S.W., Washington, DC 20013
• Textbook of Dendrology, 6th Edition, 1979, W.M.
Harlow, E.S. Harrar, and F.M. White. McGraw-Hill
Book Company, NY
• The U.S. Department of Interior Geological Survey
Topographic Map Information and Symbols Key,
Map Distribution, U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25286,