Title: Summarize the history of Virginia’s forests and forest industry.
Course: Forestry Management (18502-I) > Section: Introducing Forestry

Summary could include

- analyzing forestry in Virginia throughout history
  - timber harvest and use
  - land clearing for agriculture
  - loss from overcutting following colonization or wars
  - effects of the Civil War
  - abandoned agricultural land during the Great Depression
  - increasing development
  - loss of the American chestnut in the forests
  - use or restriction of wildland fire on species composition and structure
- describing the establishment of state and national forests
- examining conservation efforts.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What effect did chestnut blight have on Virginia's forests?
- What were Virginia's forests like before European colonization?
- How did the conservation movement affect Virginia's forests?
- How have historical events affected the local forest?