Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 736 - PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT › Division 45 - OREGON NATURAL AREAS PROGRAM RULES › Section 736-045-0011 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in this division, the definitions in ORS
				273.563 and
				390.005 apply, unless the
				context provides otherwise:
(1)
			 "Agency" means a local, state or federal, agency, board, commission, or
			 department.
(2) "Commission" means
			 the State Parks and Recreation Commission.
(3) "Committee" means the Natural Areas
			 Advisory Committee.
(4) "Candidate
			 natural area" means a natural resource area that may be considered for
			 registration or dedication.
(5)
			 "Data bank" means the Natural Areas Program inventory of natural heritage
			 resources classification, data analysis, priority setting, owner and other data
			 maintained by the Institute for Natural Resources under ORS
			 352.808.
(6) "Dedicate" means the formal recognition
			 and protection of a natural area for conservation purposes.
(7) "Department" means Oregon Parks and
			 Recreation Department.
(8)
			 "Director" means the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Director.
(9) "Instrument" means any written document
			 intended to convey an interest in real property under ORS
			 93.710, or an agreement between
			 parties according to the Natural Areas Program or the Oregon Natural Areas
			 Plan.
(10) "Introduced plant
			 species" means exotic or non-native species.
(11) "Managed area" means a registered or
			 dedicated state natural area that, by management agreement between the
			 department and private landowner, or agency, the area and its natural heritage
			 resources are maintained in a manner to protect the natural
			 character.
(12) "Management scheme"
			 means a plan that sets forth in detail the responsibilities for the
			 administration of an individual state natural area.
(13) "Natural area" means a unit of land or
			 water or both that may be considered for dedication under ORS
			 273.563 to
			 273.591 and that has
			 substantially retained its natural character, or, if altered in character,
			 shall in addition to its natural heritage resource values, be valuable as
			 habitat for plant and animal species or for the study and appreciation of
			 natural features. This includes areas in the process of being
			 restored.
(14) "Natural heritage
			 resources" means the terrestrial ecosystems types, aquatic ecosystems types and
			 unique geologic types as defined in the Oregon Natural Areas Plan or a unit of
			 land or water which contains a natural resource.
(15) "Plan" means the Oregon Natural Areas
			 Plan established under ORS
			 273.578, which governs the
			 Natural Areas Program in selecting natural areas for conservation.
(16) "Program" means the Natural Areas
			 Program as established in ORS
			 273.566, which provides for the
			 establishment of a limited system of State Natural Area representing a full
			 range of Oregon's natural resources and includes special species of plants and
			 animals.
(17) "Register" means the
			 Oregon Register of Natural Areas established under ORS
			 273.581. The Register contains
			 an official list of areas which have significant natural resources and special
			 species. Registered areas include those provisionally registered by the
			 commission.
(18) "Special species"
			 means those species of plants and animals determined by the department to be of
			 significant value in a state natural area and defined in the Plan.
(19) "State natural area" means an area that
			 an individual, organization or public agency dedicates as a state natural area
			 under ORS 273.586. The department
			 classifies property dedicated as a state natural area under ORS
			 273.586 and this division and
			 owned by the department as a "state natural area reserve."
(20) "Wildlife" means any wild or free living
			 vertebrate or invertebrate animal.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  390.124(4)
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  273.563 &
				  390.005