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Quiz: Our Western Forests ○ ○ ○ you to use your vehicle’s cigarette lighter.
Got a CB transceiver? There are compact
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○ units now that will transmit up to five miles.
by Chuck Kleber
Carry spare batteries.
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Here is a mix of multiple choice and true/false questions—designed to ○
○ A final word . . .
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enhance one’s self-esteem.
This short article wasn’t meant to cover
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○ everything. For example, if you set out in
1. This type of leaf dominates most of our western forests (a) broad leaf; (b) lobed; ○ some specific direction, leave a sign like
(c) needle; (d) compound ○ ○ rocks in an arrow shape to give rescuers a
clue. Tell a responsible person where you
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2. The Arizona Sycamore is the State’s largest deciduous tree, often up to nine feet ○ ○ are going and when you expect to return.
in diameter and 100 feet high. ( )T ( )F ○ ○ As always, it’s safer . . . and more fun . . .
to have a companion with you. Survival
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3. Pinyon and juniper can be found in “pigmy forests.” ( )T ( )F ○ ○ guides have been written in various forms
○ for generations because they are needed.
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4. Big Bend National Park is in (a) Arizona; (b) Texas; (c) New Mexico; (d) Nevada ○ ○ We all need reminding about the basics
from time to time so that thought and ac-
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○ tion come automatically in an emergency.
5. One of these categories is not correct (a) honey mesquite; (b) velvet mesquite;
Signaling know-how is critical.
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(c) screw bean mesquite; (d) twisted mesquite
6. The scientific name for the creosote bush is chilopsis linearis ( )T ( )F
Desert Trumpet
7. The four North American forests rank in size (larger to smaller) as follows: Great ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Basin, Chihuahua, Sonora, Mojave ( )T ( )F Editor
Barbara Wolin
8. The Sierra Nevada mountain range is misnamed since it is entirely in
Contributing Writers
California ( )T ( )F
Louis C. Kleber
Jack Ryan
9. An “ecotone” is (a) a boundary area between two types of habitats; (b) an area of Tom Pfaendler
similar forests; (c) a dry lake; (d) a fertile floodplain H. Dan Wray

10.Trees come in two basic types (a) lobed and broad leaf; (b) simple and needle Publishers
leaf; (c) lobed and unlobed; (d) broad leaf and needle leaf Norm Kresge
Barbara Wolin
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