Forest Consequences
Iowa’s forest area is making a comeback!
Managing forest private or public is not an easy job.
Use Project Learning Tree’s activity, “400-Acre Wood”, to explore the role of managers of a 400-acre piece of public forest or you can use “Forest Consequences” for a view in to managing private forests.
Students can find out how the use of private or public land can affect future generations.
Contact a local forest manager near you and ask for a sample of a management plan.
Book list
Pre-K – Grade 2
Bauer, D. 2003. People Change the Land. Coughlan Publishing.
Wheeler, J.C. 1993. Branch out: A Book about Land. ABDO Publishing Company.
Grades 3-5
Bockenhauer, M.H., J. Carter, and S.F. Cunha. 2004. National Geographic Our Fifty States. National Geographic Society.
Dalgleish, S. 2002. Managing the Land. Chelsea House Publishers.
Deboo, A. 2006. Mapping the Land and Environment. Heinemann.
James, B. 1993. Use of Land. Cengage Learning.
Petersen, C. 2004. Land Preservation. Scholastic Library Publishing.
Snodgrass, M.E. 1991. Environmental Awareness: Land Pollution. Bancroft-Sage Publishing,Incorporated.
Grades 6-8
Beckman, W.H. 2004. National Parks in Crisis: Debating the Issues. Enslow Publishers, Incorporated.
Casper, J.K. 2007. Agriculture: The Food We Grow and Animals We Raise. Chelsea House Publishers.
Dolan, E.F. 1992. American Wilderness and Its Future: Conservation Versus Use. Scholastic Library Publishing.
Kallen, S. 2005. Managing America's Forests. Greenhaven Press.
Leopold, A. 1989. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press.
Miles, B. 1991. Save the Earth: An Action Handbook for Kids. Scholastic Library Publishing.
Rybolt, T.R. 1993. Environmental Experiments about Land. Enslow Publishers, Incorporated.
Skurzynski, G. 1981. Safeguarding the Land. Harcourt.
Whitman, S. 1994. This Land Is Your Land: The American Conservation Movement. Lerner Publishing Group.
Willis, T. 1992. Land Use and Abuse. Scholastic.
Grades 9-12
Camp, W.G. 2000. Managing Our Natural Resources. Thomson Delmar Learning.
Prior, J.C. and L.A. Stone. 2000. Iowa - Portrait of the Land. Iowa Department of Natural Resources,Geological Survey.
Schwartz, M. 1993. Environment and the Law. Chelsea House Publishers.
