Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 629 - DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY › Division 28 - PERSONAL USE FUELWOOD PERMITS › Section 629-028-0001 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The following terms and definitions shall apply to this
				division, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Board" means the Oregon State Board of
			 Forestry.
(2) "Department" means
			 Oregon Department of Forestry.
(3)
			 "Forester" means the State Forester or an authorized representative.
(4) "Harvest" means to separate by cutting,
			 digging, prying, picking, peeling, breaking, pulling, splitting or otherwise
			 removing a special forest product from its physical connection or point of
			 contact with the ground or vegetation upon which it was growing; or the place
			 or position where it lay.
(5)
			 "Landowner" means an individual, combination of individuals, partnership,
			 corporation or association of whatever nature that holds an ownership interest
			 in forestland, including the state, and any political subdivision thereof.
(6) "Landowner representative"
			 means an employee, agent or designee of a landowner.
(7) "Permittee" means a person who possesses
			 a valid permit.
(8) "Permit Fee"
			 means a charge made by the Forester to recover costs of administering the
			 woodcutting permit program.
(9)
			 "Special Forest Products" means plants, lichens, fungi, and other materials
			 collected from the forest for various uses including subsistence, education,
			 research, recreation, and commercial enterprise as described in this section:
(a) Bark and needles of the Pacific yew
			 (Taxus brevifolia);
(b) Bear grass
			 (Xerophyllum tenas),
(c) Boughs,
			 branches, leaves, flowers, stalks, roots, pitch, bark, stems, and other forest
			 plant parts;
(d) Burls, fiddleback
			 and other music wood, or other figured or decorative-grained wood;
(e) Cascara bark from the cascara tree
			 (Rhamnus purshiana);
(f) Cedar
			 salvage, including cedar chunks, slabs, stumps, and logs that are more than one
			 cubic foot in volume;
(g) Conks
			 and other fungi;
(h) Cut or picked
			 conifer foliage, including, but not limited to wild Christmas trees, tree
			 boughs, bark, cones, and other vegetative products not harvested in log form.
(i) Cut or picked evergreen
			 foliage, bark, and shrubs, including, but not limited to, huckleberry, Oregon
			 grape, rhododendron, and salal;
(j) Cut or picked juniper foliage, berries,
			 bark, limbs, or juniper split posts, poles, pickets, stakes or rails, or other
			 round or split products of juniper;
(k) Ferns;
(l) Firewood, meaning pieces of wood that are
			 less than 48 inches in length, and in a form commonly used for burning in
			 campfires, stoves or fireplaces;
(m) Herbs, nuts, seeds, and fruits;
(n) Moss, lichen, and algae;
(o) Native trees, shrubs, bulbs,
			 and grasses, including, but not limited to trees, shrubs, bulbs, and grasses
			 that are not nursery grown and that have been removed from the ground with
			 roots intact;
(p) Rocks and
			 minerals;
(q) Round or split
			 posts, poles, pickets, stakes or rails, shakeboards, shake-bolts, shingle bolts
			 or other round or split products of any forest tree species;
(r) Vine maple clumps and cuttings;
(s) Wildflowers, mistletoe, and
			 cacti;
(t) Wild edible fungi,
			 regardless of species, that have not been cultivated or propagated by
			 artificial means;