Glossary for the Current Forest Statistic Abstract

The following definitions are extracted from the 1996 FIA reports published by USDA, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, the 1995 California Timber Yield Tax Law published by the California Board of Equalization, the 1978 edition of the Terms of the Trade by the Random Lengths, and the 1996 25% Fund Payment to the State of California published by the USDA, Forest Service, Region5.

TERMINOLOGY	DESCRIPTION
County share	Funds received from National Forest and distributed by the State of California to suggested counties equal to 25 percent of National Forest receipts.

Forest industry	Lands owned by companies that grow timber for industrial use. Includes companies both with and without wood processing plants.

Guaranteed floor	A guaranteed payment from National Forests in the fiscal year 1996 under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 based on 79 percent of the five-year average National Forest payments for fiscal years 1986-90 for those affected northern spotted owl counties.


National Forest	Federal lands that have been designated by Executive order or statute as National Forest or purchase units and other lands under the administration of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, including experimental areas and Bankhead-Jones Title III lands.


Net volume	Gross volume of wood less deductions for sound and rotten defects.
Other private	Private lands not owned by forest industry. Private farmers are separated from this category in some tables.

Other public	Lands administrated by public agencies other than the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.

Private farmer	Lands owned by the operators of farms. This category is grouped into the other private category in some tables if the private farmer is not listed as one individual category.

Reserved timberland	Forest land capable of growing 20 cubic feet or more per acre per year (mean annual increment at culmination in fully stocked, natural stands) of industrial wood and withdrawn from timber utilization through statute, ordinance, or administrative order.


Sawlog	Logs of sufficient size and quality as to be suitable for conversion to lumber or other products.

Sawtimber stand	Stands with a mean diameter (weighted by basal area) larger than 9.0 inches at breast height if a softwood stand and larger than 11.0 inches at breast height if a hardwood stand.

Timber	Timber here includes sawlogs and other miscellaneous products, including Christmas trees (in linear feet), cull logs (in gross thousand board feet), fuelwood (in cords), pulp chips and hardwood logs (in tons), fuel chips (in bone dry tons), poles and pilings (in linear feet), split products (in net thousand board feet), and other miscellaneous small sawlogs (in net thousand board feet).


Timberland	Forest land capable of growing 20 cubic feet or more per acre per year (mean increment at culmination in fully stocked, natural stands) of industrial wood and not in a reserved status through removal of the area from timber utilization by statute, ordinance, or administrative order; and not in a withdrawn status where it is pending consideration for reserved status.


TPZ	A zoning classification applied to private timberland by local government under the California Forest Taxation Reform Act of 1976. TPZ land is taxed on a use-valuation basis with its usage limited to growing and harvesting timber and compatible uses. The basic period for rezoning is a self-perpetuating 10-years.


Withdrawn timberland	A term used by Forest Services to refer the timberland that is being considered for permanent reserved status, but currently has a pending status.

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Contact Tian-Ting Shih via e-mail at tian-ting.shih@fire.ca.gov or by phone at (916) 227-2653.