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Forest
A forest (also called a wood, woodland, wold, weald, holt, frith, or firth) is an area with a high density of trees. TERM 2
Urban-wildland interface
DEFINITION 2 Millions of Americans have move from cities to ever more popular suburbs TERM 3
Preemption Act of 1841
DEFINITION 3 Heads of families with certain qualifications could purchase 160 acres of public land (cheaply) for their own settlement, use, and benefit. Preemptor was supposed to improve the land and erect a dwelling. Civil War. TERM 4
Public Land Grants
DEFINITION 4 Land unfit for was unfit for agriculture TERM 5
Policy
DEFINITION 5 An expression of goals together with procedures for achieving them.
Law
Both legislative and administrative, is the encoding of regulations to achieve the objectives of policy TERM 7
The Bureaucracy
DEFINITION 7 Public agency employees, and polictically appoi8nted agency officials of the exutive branches of government and their supporting staffs, compromise the bureaucracy. TERM 8
Society
DEFINITION 8 Includes the social force of individual voters who express themselves through election of federal, state, and local leadership. and organized voting blocks of people who adhere to certain directional principles. TERM 9
Industry
DEFINITION 9 Use natural resources; the forest products industry, harvests timber as a raw material for making lumber and paper. TERM 10
Natural Resource
Professions
DEFINITION 10 Many professional groups, societies, and organizations to whick persons with education or expertise in particular fields; Society of American Foresters, Wildlife Society, American Fisheries Society, ect...
Clarke-McNary Act of 1924
Provisions affesting forestry on public lands than in control of destructive practice of privalte lands. TERM 17
William Greeley
DEFINITION 17 Served as chief forester of the Forest Service from 1920- 1928 TERM 18
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
DEFINITION 18 Empowered the stewardship and retention of those lands under the Bureau of Land Management. TERM 19
Environmental Assecessment
DEFINITION 19 Determines that the proposed federal action will not result in significant impacts, a finding of no significan impact. TERM 20
Environmental Impact Statement
DEFINITION 20 An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment".
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources
Planning Act of 1974
The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (or RPA) (P.L. States its policy that all forested landsin the national forest system be amintained in appropriate forest cover with species of trees, degree of stocking, rate of growth, and stand conditions designed to secure the maximum benefits of multiple- use sustained yield management in accordance with land management plans. TERM 22
Clean Air Act of 1965
DEFINITION 22 Sought to improve, strengthen, and accelerate progress for the prevention and abatement of air pollution. TERM 23
Cover types
DEFINITION 23 Throughout the world, plant ecologists have mapped the locations of tree and other plant species and classified land into vegetation cover types; evergreen or deciduous forests, or named for a region. TERM 24
Commercial forests
DEFINITION 24 wdForest lands that will grow at least 20 cubic feet per acre per year. TERM 25
Nonindustrial private forestland owners
DEFINITION 25 A term describing landowners who, as a group, own 57% of private commercial forestland, but who are not principally in the business of growing and processing trees. Sometimes referred to as NIPF.
