Code of Maine Rules › 01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY › 669 - BUREAU OF FORESTRY (MAINE FOREST SERVICE) › Chapter 21 - STATEWIDE STANDARDS FOR TIMBER HARVESTING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES IN SHORELAND AREAS › Section 669-21-4 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
Unless otherwise provided herein, this rule incorporates by
				  reference the definitions contained in MFS Rule Chapter 20 (
Forest
				  Regeneration and Clearcutting Standards
). For the purpose of 12
				  M.R.S., chapter 805, subchapter 3-A and this rule, the following terms are
				  defined as follows.
A.
Brook
: See "Stream Channel."
B.
Coastal Wetland
is defined by
				38 M.R.S. §480-B (2) (Supp. 2013).
C.
Change of Land Use
means that
				following timber harvesting the subsequent primary use for a particular area is
				not growing forest products. Change of land use may include, but is not limited
				to, conversion to farm pasture, site for growing agricultural crops,
				residential dwelling unit, development site, or gravel pit. The division of
				forest land into smaller units does not by itself automatically constitute a
				change of land use.
D.
Cross-sectional area of a stream channel
is determined by
				multiplying the stream channel width by the average stream channel depth. The
				stream channel width is the straight line distance from the normal high water
				line on one side of the channel to the normal high water line on the opposite
				side of the channel. The average stream channel depth is the average of the
				vertical distances from a straight line between the normal high water lines of
				the stream channel to the bottom of the channel.
E.
Crossing
means any timber
				harvesting and related activity involving the passage of ground-based equipment
				from one side to the opposite side of a water body, or to an island or upland
				within a water body. Such activities include, but are not limited to
				construction of roads, fords, bridges, and culverts, as well as maintenance
				work on these crossings.
F.
Designated Agent
means a person, company or other entity that is
				authorized by the landowner to act on the landowner's behalf for timber
				harvesting and related activities on the landowner's property.
G.
Disruption of shoreline
				integrity
means the alteration of the physical shape, properties, or
				condition of a shoreline at any location by timber harvesting and related
				activities. A shoreline where shoreline integrity has been disrupted is
				recognized by compacted, scarified and/or rutted soil, an abnormal channel or
				shoreline cross-section, and in the case of flowing waters, a profile and
				character altered from natural conditions.
H.
Essential Wildlife Habitat
means areas identified by the Commissioner, Maine Department of Inland
				Fisheries and Wildlife in accordance with the provisions of 12 M.R.S.,
				§§12801
et seq.
(2005 and Supp. 2013) and any
				Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife rules implementing that
				subchapter.
I.
Forested
				Wetland
means a freshwater wetland dominated by woody vegetation that is
				at least 20 feet tall.
J.
Forest Stand
means a contiguous group of trees sufficiently
				uniform in age class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a
				site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
K.
Freshwater Wetland
means
				ponds, freshwater swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas that are:
1. Inundated or saturated by surface or
				groundwater at a frequency and for a duration sufficient to support, and which
				under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of wetland vegetation
				typically adapted for life in saturated soils; and,
2. Not part of a Great Pond, coastal wetland,
				stream, or river.