Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 1-99 - Fish, Game and Enforcement, Forestry and Recreation › Chapter NR 37 - Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Aesthetic Management Specifications For Cutting And Harvest Of Timber › Section NR 37.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) "Basal area" means the cross-sectional
				area 4½ feet above ground expressed in square feet per acre of all trees
				with a diameter of 5 inches and larger.
(2) "Bluff line" means that point where there
				is a significant change in slope on the visual horizon when viewed from the
				river. This change in slope may take the form of a ridge protruding into the
				river valley.
(3) "Bluff zone"
				means the land area 200 feet in width from 100 feet behind the bluff line to
				100 feet below the bluff line.
(4)
				"Department" means the department of natural resources.
(5) "Cutting and harvesting timber" means the
				severing of the timber from the land as well as all other aspects of the timber
				harvesting and transportation operation, but does not include the removal of
				firewood from tree tops resulting from the timber harvest, shearing of
				Christmas trees, pruning or other sound forest management practices not
				involving the severing of the timber from the land.
(6) "Forest aesthetics" means the department
				publication, publ. FR-039-86, relating to timber harvest.
Note:
This publication may be obtained from the
				  bureau of forestry, DNR, P.O. Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707.
(7) "Resource management zone" means land in
				the riverway which is not included in the river edge zone, bluff zone or
				riverview zone.
(8) "River" has the
				meaning established in s.
				30.40(14),
				Stats.
(9) "River edge zone" means
				the land within the riverway from where tree growth begins on the river's edge
				and extending 75 feet landward.
(10) "Riverview zone" means all land within
				the riverway which is visible from the river during the time when the leaves
				are on the deciduous trees.
(11)
				"Riverway" has the meaning established in s.
				30.40(15),
				Stats.
(12) "Riverway board" means
				that board established under s.
				15.345(8),
				Stats.
(13) "Selection cutting"
				means the removal of selected trees throughout the range of merchantable sizes
				at regular intervals, either singly or in small groups, leaving a uniformly
				distributed stocking of desirable trees and size classes.
(14) "Shelterwood cut" means a partial
				removal of mature trees leaving trees of desirable species and form to provide
				shade, seed source and a desirable seed bed for natural regeneration with the
				final removal of the overstory after adequate regeneration is
				established.
(15) "Silvicultural
				and forest aesthetics handbook" means the department handbook 2431.5 relating
				to timber harvest.
Note:
This handbook may be obtained from the
				  department of natural resources Directives Section, P.O. Box 7921, Madison, WI
				  53707.
(16) "Small
				regeneration cut" means a harvest of not more than one-third of the contiguous
				forested ownership within a 10-year period with each opening not exceeding 6
				acres in size and not closer than 75 feet at their closest points.
(17) "Switchback" means a sharp curve or
				significant change in direction of a road.
(18) "Timber" has the meaning established in
				s.
				30.40(18m),
				Stats.
(19) "Timber stand" means
				all trees occupying an area capable of producing timber, including but not
				limited to, logs, poles, posts, pulpwood and other cordwood products.
(20) "Tree" means a woody plant which at
				maturity is 20 feet or more in height, with a single trunk, unbranched for at
				least several feet above the ground and having a more or less definite
				crown.
(21) "Visible from the
				river" has the meaning established in s.
				30.40(20),
				Stats.
(22) "Visually
				inconspicuous" has the meaning established in s.
				30.40(21),
				Stats.