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Introduction Just for fun sometime, ask your kids, grandkids, or another child what they know about forests. What you will find – and this observation is supported by surveys of many young people over a fifteen year period – is a pervasive pessimism about not only forests, but about the environment in general. Moreover, if you ask questions that have verifiable answers (for instance, trends in forest land area, trends in forest growth and harvest, percent of paper collected for recycling) you will encounter answers that are consistently and significantly to the pessimistic side of wrong. In 1991 a short environmental quiz was developed at the University of Minnesota and has been administered to students annually since that time. This quiz has been extremely useful in stimulating discussion about forest and environmental trends. Focusing on topics from population to raw material consumption trends, the quiz actively engages those who participate in filing it out, stimulates comparison of answers and interaction among participants after the quiz is completed, and provides an entrée to informal discussion and further questions as correct answers are shared. Download the full text of this report. (PDF) To download a copy of the quiz, click here (pdf, 48kb) To download a copy of the enhanced version of the quiz that includes answers and commentary, click here (pdf, 92kb) The quiz and the accompanying answer and commentary piece are updated semiannually and can be found at: http://www.freenetwork.umn.edu/teachers/envquiz.html/
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