Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 629 - DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY › Division 22 - FOREST RESOURCE TRUST › Section 629-022-0040 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
Defined words and terms are identified with upper case letters
				throughout these rules. As used in the Forest Resource Trust rules and
				contracts and agreements entered into under the Forest Resource Trust rules,
				unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Actual Trust Cost" means the portion of
			 Incurred Costs paid by the Trust.
(2) "Adequately Stocked" means the number and
			 size of the trees growing within a Forest Stand meets the standards determined
			 by the State Forester in OAR
			 629-022-0390.
(3) "Approved Consulting Services" means
			 services and supplies to be provided by a Resource Management Professional
			 approved by the State Forester as specified in a Forest Resource Trust loan
			 program contract or cost-share agreement.
(4) "Approved Practices" means the schedule
			 and manner of forest Practices, Environmental Restoration and related materials
			 and supplies approved by the State Forester.
(5) "Budgeted Cost" means the expected cost
			 of an Approved Practice or an Approved Consulting Service.
(6) "Carbon Offsets" means credits registered
			 or used, transferred or sold to comply with air quality or other greenhouse gas
			 mitigation measures for the purpose of compensating for emissions of carbon
			 dioxide from other sources such as the burning of fossil fuels for energy
			 production. Carbon Offsets are not considered to be a Forest Product as defined
			 in OAR 629-22-040(15).
(7) A
			 "Catastrophe" means an event or circumstance beyond the Landowner's control,
			 resulting in all or part of a Forest Stand being incapable of producing harvest
			 revenues to make repayment of Trust funds as described in OAR
			 629-022-0300.
(8) "Consulting Services" means services and
			 supplies to be provided by a Resource Management Professional necessary to
			 conduct a Practice or Environmental Restoration.
(9)"Conversion" means an Operation conducted
			 on Underproducing Forestland with the objective of removing undesirable
			 competing vegetation, including the incidental harvest of Forest Products and
			 establishing an Adequately Stocked, Free to Grow Forest Stand.
(10) "Direct Cost Payment" means the
			 disbursement of Forest Resource Trust funds on behalf of the Landowner for up
			 to 100 percent of the Incurred Cost of an Approved Practice or Approved
			 Consulting Service as specified in a Loan Program Contract.
(11) "Ecosystem Services" means environmental
			 benefits arising from the conservation and management of forestland, including,
			 but not limited to, fish and wildlife habitat, clean water and air,
			 pollination, mitigation of environmental hazards, control of pests and
			 diseases, carbon sequestration, avoidance of carbon dioxide emissions and
			 maintenance of soil productivity.
(12) "Environmental Restoration" means a
			 practice that protects, restores or improves natural resources. For example, an
			 Environmental Restoration practice may enhance wildlife habitat for a sensitive
			 species such as the osprey or a threatened species such as the bald eagle;
			 improve water quality, reduce water temperature, or provide large woody debris
			 to a stream in a watershed enhancement area; improve the health of an insect
			 damaged or diseased forest; or protect soils from erosion or
			 degradation.
(13) "Final Harvest"
			 means forest products are removed from the stand to create a Harvest Type 1, or
			 3 condition, described as:
(a) "Harvest Type
			 1" means an Operation that requires reforestation but does not require wildlife
			 leave trees. A Harvest Type 1 is an Operation that leaves a combined stocking
			 level of Free To Grow seedlings, saplings, poles and larger trees that is less
			 than the stocking level established by rule of the board that represents
			 adequate utilization of the productivity of the site.
(b) "Harvest Type 3" means an Operation that
			 requires reforestation and requires wildlife leave trees. This represents a
			 level of stocking below which the size of Operations is limited under ORS
			 527.740 and 527.750.