Chartered Forester / Chartered Arboriculturist — Professional Membership Entry (PME)

UK · Institute of Chartered Foresters · professional

59practice questions written to this syllabus
3subjects

Format

Points-based eligibility (ten points: a degree-level qualification worth at least four, plus one point per year of relevant supervisory, managerial or scientific work), then six steps: two-year work record, two-year CPD record, career profile, a 3,000–3,500-word critical analysis, an e-learning module with an ethical dilemma, and a professional interview.

Sections

Over the years

Read on the ICF 'Get Chartered' page. Associates have up to ten years to complete PME. ICF awards both Chartered Forester and Chartered Arboriculturist.

Official source: https://charteredforesters.org/memberships/get-chartered

Subjects this exam draws on

Working Plans & Forest Management Planning9 questionsUrban Forestry & Arboriculture28 questionsProfessional Forestry Practice, Ethics & Registration22 questions

Five practice questions, worked

Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.

1. In North American practice, the planning units that play roughly the role of South Asian compartments are:

  1. Stands grouped into management units
  2. Townships of 36 square miles
  3. Counties and their road districts
  4. Watersheds of major rivers only
Answer and working

A. Stands grouped into management units

Stands are the basic units of description and treatment, grouped into management or planning units.

Working Plans & Forest Management Planning · Division of the forest: working circles, felling series, compartments

2. Why is the effect of urban trees on city-wide air quality usually modest?

  1. Trees do not take up any pollutants
  2. Removal is small versus emissions
  3. Leaves block all particulate deposition
  4. Trees emit far more pollution than cars
Answer and working

B. Removal is small versus emissions

Local benefits exist, but city-wide removal is small.

Urban Forestry & Arboriculture · Urban forest concepts and benefits

3. The Institute of Chartered Foresters can award a protected chartered title because it holds:

  1. A licence from the European Union
  2. A contract with every forest company
  3. Membership of the United Nations
  4. A royal charter
Answer and working

D. A royal charter

Chartered bodies in the UK derive the right to award chartered status from a royal charter.

Professional Forestry Practice, Ethics & Registration · Forestry as a profession: societies, regulators and titles

4. The record that allows cumulative fellings to be compared with the prescribed yield at the end of the plan is:

  1. The stock map
  2. The control form
  3. The preliminary report
  4. The sample plot sheet
Answer and working

B. The control form

Control forms accumulate actual fellings against prescriptions year by year.

Working Plans & Forest Management Planning · Monitoring, deviations and plan revision

5. Conocarpus has been restricted by several Indian states mainly because of concerns about:

  1. Its slow growth and small size
  2. Its value as timber
  3. Its native status
  4. Allergy and water concerns
Answer and working

D. Allergy and water concerns

A fast-growing exotic.

Urban Forestry & Arboriculture · Species choice and design for streets, parks and green belts

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