Forestry Career Development Event (CDE) Objectives:

• Read Extension publications in order to learn about forest ecosystems, forestry management, and the utilization of forest products.
• 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.

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 - Now Available!! Seniors (key); Juniors (key) The questions in the 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. Corrections to the database (flagged since the Question Bank was posted in 2007). All corrections (3) are in the Senior database. These questions will not be used in the State CDE and will be corrected in the 2008 Question Bank.

On-line publications:

• 4-H 641, Introductory Forestry
• 4-H 642, General Forestry
• 4-H 643, Woodland Management (Word.doc, download if you want to be able to link to publications)
• FNR publications (list or Purdue Store (enter Forestry in the Search box))

Contact your local Extension office for contest dates, to register, to ask about publications, or for more information.

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:

Resources

• Making a practice kit
• Contest Resource
  • Practice questions on-line
  • Area Quiz answer sheets (Junior & Senior)
  • Area Identification answer sheets (Junior, Senior)
• 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/)
    • VPI forestry/ecology website (www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualforest/)
    • Trees of Purdue (www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/grounds/trees/website/)
    • IDNR Natural Resource Education Center Events (www.in.gov/dnr/nrec/events/)