- Industry: Forest products; Government
- Number of terms: 2933
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
Pulpwood yard providing facilities for unloading trucks, storage, and loading for shipment.
Industry:Forest products
Tree that is a gymnosperm, usually evergreen, with cones and needle-shaped or scalelike leaves, producing wood known commercially as softwood.
Industry:Forest products
Visible fruiting body of a wood-destroying fungus, usually indicating rot in the underlying wood.
Industry:Forest products
Protection, improvement, and wise use of natural resources according to principles that will assure utilization of the resource to obtain the highest economic and/or social benefits.
Industry:Forest products
Timber sampling system that provides for periodic remeasurement of specific stands or plots of individual trees; this shows status and periodic change over time for the forest as a whole and major subdivisions therein.
Industry:Forest products
Independent truck owner or a driver working for the contractor who hauls logs from the woods to the dump.
Industry:Forest products
1. Operator doing all or part of the logging for a company. 2. Independent logger who logs standing timber according to the terms of a contract.
Industry:Forest products
Person who has a contract to do all or any part of a logging job.
Industry:Forest products
Use of fire to destroy logging debris, reduce buildups of dead and fallen timber that pose wildfire hazards, control tree diseases, and clear land. Other functions of a controlled burn include clearing a buffer strip in the path of a wildfire; see backfire.
Industry:Forest products
