Section 37.03. Definitions.

 

(1)  "Basal area" means the cross-sectional area 4 ½ feet above ground expressed in square feet per acre of all trees with a diameter of 5 inches and larger.

(2)  "Bluff line" means that point where there is a significant change in slope on the visual horizon when viewed from the river. This change in slope may take the form of a ridge protruding into the river valley.

(3)  "Bluff zone" means the land area 200 feet in width from 100 feet behind the bluff line to 100 feet below the bluff line.

(4)  "Department" means the department of natural resources.

(5)  "Cutting and harvesting timber" means the severing of the timber from the land as well as all other aspects of the timber harvesting and transportation operation, but does not include the removal of firewood from tree tops resulting from the timber harvest, shearing of Christmas trees, pruning or other sound forest management practices not involving the severing of the timber from the land.

(6)  "Forest aesthetics" means the department publication, publ. FR-039-86, relating to timber harvest.

(7)  "Resource management zone" means land in the riverway which is not included in the river edge zone, bluff zone or riverview zone.

(8)  "River" has the meaning established in s. 30.40 (14) , Stats.

(9)  "River edge zone" means the land within the riverway from where tree growth begins on the river's edge and extending 75 feet landward.

(10)  "Riverview zone" means all land within the riverway which is visible from the river during the time when the leaves are on the deciduous trees.

(11)  "Riverway" has the meaning established in s. 30.40 (15) , Stats.

(12)  "Riverway board" means that board established under s. 15.445 (3) , Stats.

(13)  "Selection cutting" means the removal of selected trees throughout the range of merchantable sizes at regular intervals, either singly or in small groups, leaving a uniformly distributed stocking of desirable trees and size classes.

(14)  "Shelterwood cut" means a partial removal of mature trees leaving trees of desirable species and form to provide shade, seed source and a desirable seed bed for natural regeneration with the final removal of the overstory after adequate regeneration is established.

(15)  "Silvicultural and forest aesthetics handbook" means the department handbook 2431.5 relating to timber harvest.

(16)  "Small regeneration cut" means a harvest of not more than one-third of the contiguous forested ownership within a 10-year period with each opening not exceeding 6 acres in size and not closer than 75 feet at their closest points.

(17)  "Switchback" means a sharp curve or significant change in direction of a road.

(18)  "Timber" has the meaning established in s. 30.40 (18m) , Stats.

(19)  "Timber stand" means all trees occupying an area capable of producing timber, including but not limited to, logs, poles, posts, pulpwood and other cordwood products.

(20)  "Tree" means a woody plant which at maturity is 20 feet or more in height, with a single trunk, unbranched for at least several feet above the ground and having a more or less definite crown.

(21)  "Visible from the river" has the meaning established in s. 30.40 (20) , Stats.

(22)  "Visually inconspicuous" has the meaning established in s. 30.40 (21) , Stats.

History: Cr. Register, November, 1990, No. 419 , eff. 12-1-90; correction in (12) was made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register November 2001 No. 551 .

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