Code of Maine Rules › 01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY › 669 - BUREAU OF FORESTRY (MAINE FOREST SERVICE) › Chapter 26 - FOREST OPERATIONS NOTIFICATION STANDARDS › Section 669-26-2 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A. For the purpose of 12 M.R.S., Chapter 805,
				sub-chapter 5 and for these rules, the following terms have the following
				meanings unless the context otherwise requires:
1.
Change Of Land Use
means that
				following timber harvesting the subsequent use for a particular area does not
				include 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.
2.
Development Site
means the ground area where any significant earth
				moving, grading, dredging, filling, building, construction, mining operation,
				or deposition of refu se, solid or liquid waste other than agricultural waste
				will occur. It does not include forest land areas where bioash or sludge are
				spread as a soil additive or fertilizer.
3.
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.
4.
Director
means the Director of the Bureau of Forestry.
5.
Forest Land
means land
				primarily covered with trees, and where commercial timber harvesting is not
				precluded by legal requirement.
6.
Forest Management Activities
include cruising and other forest
				resource evaluation activities, pesticide or fertilizer application, timber
				stand improvement, pruning, timber harvesting and other forest harvesting,
				regeneration of forest stands, and other similar or associated activities, but
				not t he construction, creation, or maintenance of land management
				roads.
7.
Forest Management
				Plan
: See "Harvest Plan."
8.
Forest Products
means logs, pulpwood, veneer, boltwood, wood
				chips, stud wood, poles, pilings, biomass fuel wood, fuel wood or other
				products commonly known as forest products. It does not include Christmas
				trees, maple syrup, nursery products used for ornamental purposes, wreaths,
				bough material, cones or other seed crops.
9.
Harvester
means a person,
				company, or other entity who harvests, or contracts to harvest, a forest
				product.
10.
Harvest
				Plan
means a site specific document signed by a Licensed Forester
				outlining proposed activities to ensure compliance with performance standards
				and regeneration requirements of 12 M.R.S. c. 805, sub-c. 3-A and this
				rule.
11.
Landing
: See
				"Yard."
12.
Landowner
means a person, company, or other entity which holds title to land, including
				joint ownership or tenants in common. Where the ownership of the timber located
				on a parcel is different than the fee ownership of the land, the owners of the
				timber are deemed to be a landowner and are jointly and severally responsible
				with the fee landowner to comply with this rule. Where a corporate landowner is
				a wholly owned subsidiary of another corporation, both parent and subsidiary
				are deemed to be the same landowner.
13.
Land Management Road
means a
				route or track consisting of a bed of exposed mineral soil, gravel, or other
				surfacing materials constructed for, or created by, the passage of motorized
				vehicles and used primarily for forest management activities, including
				associated log yards, but not including skid trails or skid roads.
14.
Licensed Forester
means a
				forester licensed under 32 M.R.S. c. 76.
15.
Management Plan
: see
				"Harvest Plan."
16.
Parcel
means a contiguous tract or plot of forest land owned by a
				landowner. Multiple contiguous tracts, plots or parcels of forest land owned by
				the same landowner are considered a single parcel. Contiguous tracts completely
				separated by a public road or roadway are considered to be separate parcels
				under these rules. Tracts of land joined only at a single point are not
				contiguous.
17.
Public
				Road
or
Roadway
means any roadway that is owned or leased
				by a governmental unit or public entity.
18.
Timber harvesting
means the
				cutting or removing of timber for the primary purpose of selling or processing
				forest products.
19.
Timber
				harvesting activities
means timber harvesting, the construction and
				maintenance of roads used primarily for timber harvesting, the minin g of
				gravel used for the construction and maintenance of roads used primarily for
				timber harvesting and other activities conducted to facilitate timber
				harvesting.
20.
Yard, Log
				Yard, Landing
means the area where forest products are hauled by
				forwarding machinery or animals for deposition or storage before transfer to
				trucks or other means of conveyance.