Code of Maine Rules › 01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY › 669 - BUREAU OF FORESTRY (MAINE FOREST SERVICE) › Chapter 23 - TIMBER HARVESTING STANDARDS TO SUBSTANTIALLY ELIMINATE LIQUIDATION HARVESTING › Section 669-23-4 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
For the purpose of 12 M.R.S.A., Chapter 805, sub-chapter 3-A
				  and this rule, the following terms are defined as follows. Unless otherwise
				  provided herein, this rule incorporates by reference the definitions contained
				  in MFS Rule Chapter 20 (Forest Regeneration and Clearcutting Standards).
A.
Adequately Stocked Stand
means for even aged stands a forest stand that contains C-line stocking as
				defined by the stocking guide relevant to particular species published by the
				USDA Forest Service. For uneven-aged management, "adequately stocked stand"
				means that the stocking level of acceptable growing stock trees must not be
				less than 60 square feet of basal area per acre.
B.
Area Affected by a Harvest
means the area where timber harvesting activities, including the cutting of
				trees, skidding, yarding, and associated road construction take place. The area
				affected by a harvest encompasses the area within the outer boundaries of these
				activities, excepting unharvested areas greater than 10 acres within the area
				affected by a harvest.
C.
Certified Master Logger
means a timber harvester certified under the
				Master Logger Certification Program, a program administered by the Professional
				Logging Contractors of Maine, a non-profit corporation of Maine, according to
				standards promulgated by that program dated April 1, 2003.
D.
Certified Resource Manager
means a licensed forester whose sustainable forest management of a client's
				forest lands is verified by an independent 3rd party
				audit.
E.
Forest Land
means land primarily covered with trees, and where commercial timber harvesting
				is not precluded by legal requirement.
F.
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.
G.
High Grading
means timber
				harvesting that removes the most commercially valuable trees and leaves a
				residual stand composed primarily of trees of poor quality, poor condition,
				unable to respond to release from competition, and/or non-commercial
				species.
H.
Independent
				3rd Party Certification
means a system that
				verifies that forest management is consistent with a certification program's
				standards through an independent 3rd party audit of
				the management of forest lands. To be considered an "independent 3rd party
				certification" system:
1. The certification
				program, including but not limited to the standards for awarding certification
				and the protocols for ascertaining compliance must be developed and
				administered by an entity with no financial interest in the entity seeking
				certification except by reason of the contract for certification
				services;
2. The organization
				retained to perform the certification audit must receive no financial benefit
				from timber harvesting on the land or by the entity being audited, except for
				the contractual relationship for the audit service.