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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.
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Abiotic
Non-living. Climate is an abiotic component of ecosystems.
Activity Plan
See "Implementation Plan."
Adaptive Management
A type of natural resource management that implies making decisions as p...
Administrative Unit
A National Forest, a National Grassland, a purchase unit, a land utiliza...
Aerial Logging
Removing logs from a timber harvest area by helicopter. Fewer roads are ...
Affected Environment
The natural environment that exists at the present time in an area being...
Age Class
An age grouping of trees according to an interval of years, usually 20 y...
Airshed
A geographic area that shares the same air.
Allotment
An area of land designated and managed for the grazing of livestock by o...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Any process used to prevent, manage, or resolve conflicts using procedur...
Anadromous Fish
Species of fish that mature in the sea and migrate into streams to spawn.
Aquifer
A body of rock that is saturated with water or transmits water. When peo...
Area
A discrete, specifically delineated space that is smaller, and in most c...
Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC)
Special Area designation established through the Bureau’s land use plann...
Aspect
The direction a slope faces. A hillside facing east has an eastern aspect.
ASQ (allowable sale quantity)
The amount of timber that may be sold within a certain time period from ...
Assessment
The act of evaluating and interpreting data and information for a define...
AUM (animal unit month)
The quantity of forage required by one mature cow and her calf (or the e...
Bark Beetle
An insect that bores through the bark of forest trees to eat the inner b...
Basal Area
The area of the cross section of a tree trunk near its base, usually 4 a...
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