Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 1-99 - Fish, Game and Enforcement, Forestry and Recreation › Chapter NR 46 - Forest Tax Program › Section NR 46.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
For the terms used in subch. I, the following definitions
				  apply:
(1) "Burning" means the presence
				of fire on forest land, except when used as a prescribed tool in the practice
				of sound forestry.
(2) "Commercial
				forest land" means forest land capable of producing wood products within 100
				years and not withdrawn from timber production.
(3) "Department" means the state of Wisconsin
				department of natural resources.
(4) "Domicile" means the place of permanent
				residence.
(5) "Fishing" means
				taking, capturing, killing or fishing for fish of any variety in any manner
				under general provision. Landowners may prohibit activities other than public
				hunting and fishing on lands under the forest crop law.
(6) "Forest land" means land capable of
				producing wood products, having a minimum width of 120 feet, not developed for
				uses inimical to the practice of forestry and at least 10% stocked with forest
				trees of any of the following size classes:
Stand Size Classes
Tree Diameter Ranges at 4.5 Feet from Ground
								Level
Minimum Density
Seedlings
0"-1"
200 trees per acre
Saplings
1"-5"
100 trees per acre
Pole timber
5"-9"*,11"**
3 cords per acre
Sawtimber
9"+*, 11"**
1,300 board feet per acre
*For conifer species
**For other species
(7) "Fractional lot" means a portion of a
				section in a township formed by the excess or deficiency of land in said
				township, as shown by the U.S. government survey plat.
(8) "Government lot" means an irregular
				portion of a section formed by a meandered body of water, impassable object, a
				state or reservation or grant boundary or for other similar reasons as shown by
				U.S. government survey plat.
(9)
				"Grazing" means the feeding on grass, herbage or other growing plants by
				domestic animals. Animals used during timber harvest operations are
				exempt.
(10) "Hunting" means
				shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, catching or killing of any wild animal
				or animals other than trapping.
(11) "Land" means the property which is being
				considered for entry under the forest crop law or woodland tax law
				programs.
(12) "Merchantable
				timber" means standing trees by species and product which are because of size
				and quality, salable within a reasonable time period from the subject
				lands.
(13) "Non-commercial forest
				land" means forest land incapable of producing wood products within 100
				years.
(14) "Non-forest" means
				farmland (including grazing pastures), water, marsh, muskeg, bog, rock
				outcrops, sand dunes, recreational land, industrial land, residential land and
				rights-of-way.
(15) "Non-productive
				area" means lands not producing or incapable of producing wood
				products.
(15m) "Open areas" means
				nonproductive areas capable of producing merchantable timber when stocked with
				suitable forest trees.
(16)
				"Petitioner or applicant" means any or all persons who have an ownership
				interest either in fee or equity with full control over forest practices on the
				lands.
(17) "Practice forestry",
				"sound forestry practices" and "sound forestry" mean sound and commonly
				accepted timber cutting, transporting and forest cultural methods recommended
				or approved by a qualified forester of the department for most effective
				propagation and improvement of the various timber types common to
				Wisconsin.
(18) "Public roads and
				railroad rights-of-way" means public roads or railroad rights-of-way active or
				abandoned, in public or railroad ownership.
(19) "Qualified forester" means a forester
				having a bachelor or higher degree from a school of forestry.
(20) "Quarter-quarter section" means a
				regular one-sixteenth part of a section, the boundaries of which are determined
				by a correctly executed subdivision of the section involved, as determined by
				U.S. government survey plat.
(21)
				"Renewal" means a continuation of an entry under the laws upon mutual consent
				of the landowner and department.
(22) "Standard units of measurement" means:
(a)
1.
				"Sawlogs-board feet" means forest products that have the following minimum
				specifications:
Position in tree
Butt or upper
Minimum diameter*, small end-Hardwoods
10.6"
Minimum diameter*, small end-Conifers
9.6"
Minimum length, without trim**
8' (except walnut and cherry, which are 4')
Sweep allowance***
½ of diameter small end for each 8'
								length
Maximum scale deduction for unsound defects
50%
Clear cuttings free of knots or other
								defects
No requirements.
Sound or unsound surface defect limitations
Diameter of knots, holes, rot, etc., may not exceed
								
								1/3
								diameter of log at point of occurrence.
Sound end defects
No requirements
*Diameter inside bark
**The maximum trim allowance is 8". Cut products that exceed
				  the 8" trim allowance will be classified as misbucked and will be scaled as
				  sawlogs at the next whole foot increment.
***Sweep is defined as the maximum departure distance of a
				  line drawn between the ends of a log from the nearest surface of the
				  log.
2. The required scaling
				method for sawlogs shall be according to the Scribner Decimal C log
				rule.