Forestry Career Development Event (CDE) Objectives:

• Learn about forest ecosystems, forestry management, and the utilization of forest products.
• Identify trees by leaves, seeds, and woods.
• Develop leadership skills and practice good study habits.
• Appreciate and manage Indiana's forest resources wisely.
• Teams must qualify at an Area CDE in order to attend the State Career Development Event.
• 2012 State CDE Draft Agenda
• Contest guidelines are available in the Indiana 4-H Ag Judging Handbook. The Handbook is linked to the Judging homepage (top, above list of CDEs).

Question Bank - The questions in this database will be used for the Area and State Forestry CDEs. The questions may be rephrased (the content will not be altered) and the answers may be re-arranged from what is listed.

• Senior
  • Senior Questions (Word, PDF)
  • Senior Key (Word, PDF)
• Junior
  • Junior Questions (Word, PDF)
  • Junior Key (Word, PDF)
• Additional Resources: Purdue Extension Publications

Contact your local Extension office for contest dates, to register, to ask about publications, or for more information. Contest guidelines are available in the Indiana 4-H Ag Judging Handbook, which is linked to the Judging homepage (top, above list of CDEs).

Resources

• National 4-H Forestry contest information (Word document)
• Interested in a career in Forestry?
  • View the Purdue Department of Forestry & Natural Resources video to see what it is all about!
  • Read the Society of American Foresters brochure
• Making a practice kit
• Contest Resource
  • Practice questions on-line
• Identification Resources
  • 50 Trees of Indiana (order form)
  • 101 Trees of Indiana, A Field Guuide (2003, order from IU Press, http://iupress.indiana.edu or (800) 842.6796, ISBN 978-0-253-21694-6)
  • Book: Native Trees of the Midwest (by Sally Weeks)
  • CD-ROM: Trees of Indiana (by Sally Weeks)
  • On-line:
    • Iowa State Interactive tree ID site (www.extension.iastate.edu/pages/tree/)
    • Trees of Purdue (www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/grounds/trees/website/)
    • IDNR Natural Resource Education Center Events (www.in.gov/dnr/nrec/events/)
  • Articles:
    • http://www.fnr.purdue.edu/extension/index.shtml  See Forests and Trees and Wood Products sections.
    • Purdue Media Distribution  Search For: forestry, wood

In 2006 and 2007 the 4-H/FFA Forestry CDE questions were extensively revised, new samples collected for the state CDE. This could not have been possible without the dedicated work of the following people: