Access Terms

Here is a glossary to help understand the terminology that land use agencies like to use. Compiled by John Stewart with edits from our volunteers and staff. Contact us if you have suggestions or additions.

Chemical Control

The use of pesticides and herbicides to control pests and undesirable pl...
Citizen Wilderness Proposal (CWP)

Areas that have been inventoried and proposed for Wilderness designation...
Clear Cut

A harvest in which all or almost all of the trees are removed in one cut...
Clearcutting

Cutting essentially all trees in a given area, which produces a fully ex...
Climax

The culminating stage in plant succession for a given site. Climax veget...
Closed

Generally denotes that an area is not available for a particular use or ...
Coarse Filter Management

Land management that addresses the needs of all associated species, comm...
Cohesive strategy

A Forest Service strategic document, formally titled Protecting People a...
Collaboration

A cooperative process in which interested parties, often with widely var...
Collaborative Partnerships and Collaborative Stewardship

Refers to people working together, sharing knowledge and resources, to a...
Collector Roads

Classified roads serving smaller land areas than arterial roads; collect...
Commercial timber harvest

The removal of merchantable trees, portions of trees, and timber product...
Commodity-purpose timber sale (commodity purpose timber harvest)

A component of the Forest Service timber sale program that includes timb...
Community

(a) A group of species of plants and/or animals living and interacting a...
Composition

The numbers and kinds of plants and animals in an area. What an ecosyst...
Comprehensive Evaluation Report (CER)

A Forest Service planning document that evaluates ecological, social, an...
Concessionaire/Concessioner

An indiivdual or a private company that is under permit or contract to o...
Condition Class 1 - Low risk from uncharacteristic wildfire effects.

Fire regimes within this class are within the historical range of variab...
Condition Class 2 - Moderate risk from uncharacteristic wildfire effects.

Fire regimes are beginning to be altered since one or more wildfires hav...
Condition Class 3 - High risk from uncharacteristic wildfire effects.

The fire regimes in this condition class are significantly altered, havi...

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