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04-For-A4 Forest Management: May 2014

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  1. Question 1 Biological Diversity in Forest Management
  2. Question 2 Single-Use Zoning — Strengths and Weaknesses
  3. Question 3 Age-Class Structure — Harvest Rotation versus Fire Cycle
  4. Question 4 Precommercial Thinning — Break-Even Stumpage and Interest Rate
  5. Question 5 Which Management Actions Give an Immediate, Sustainable Harvest Increase?
  6. Question 6 Forest Age Structure — Carbon, Harvest, Volume and Habitat
  7. Question 7 Explaining a Large NPV Discrepancy Between Two Bidders

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EGBC National Exam — Forest Engineering, 04-For-A4 Forest Management, May 2014. Closed book; approved Casio/Sharp calculator only. 3 hours. Seven questions; the instructions call for Questions 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 plus EITHER Question 4 or Question 5.

Reference texts: Davis, Johnson, Bettinger & Howard, Forest Management: To Sustain Ecological, Economic, and Social Values (age-class regulation, area/volume control, biodiversity planning); Klemperer, Forest Resource Economics and Finance (discounted cash flow, break-even stumpage/rate analysis); Smith et al., The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology (silvicultural systems, natural disturbance regimes); Van Wagner (1978), “Age-class distribution and the forest fire cycle,” Can. J. For. Res. 8 (negative-exponential fire-origin age structure); BC Forest and Range Practices Act and BC Ministry of Forests guidance (Canadian regulatory context).

Check: the paper prints two different mark totals for the same questions — the page-1 scoring table lists [1]=16, [2]=16, [3]=16, [4]=16, [5]=16, [6]=20, [7]=16 (a 116-mark table), while the mark shown directly beside each question is [1]=14, [2]=14, [3]=12, [4]=12, [5]=12, [6]=20, [7]=16. The per-question values sum to a clean 100-mark paper once one of Q4/Q5 is chosen (14+14+12+12+20+16=88, +12=100), matching the stated 5-of-7-plus-either format exactly, so the headings below use the per-question values and treat the page-1 table as a template artifact.