Skid Moving of logs or felled trees from the stump to the loading point.
Skidder Heavy equipment designed for transporting logs and felled trees within the harvest site.
Skid Trails A temporary road used for the skidding logs in the forest.
Slash Wood residue, usually tree limbs and tops, left on the ground after an area has been logged.
Slope An index of the change in elevation of a land area. Often referred to as a ratio of rise over run; normally expressed in percent.
Snag Trees Typically isolated standing dead trees characterized by hollow trunks and/or limbs which may provide habitat for wildlife.
Stand A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in species composition, arrangement of age classes and condition to be a homogeneous and distinguishable unit.
Stringer Narrow strip of trees left on and/or near the banks of intermittent streams, lakes and sinkholes for purposes of stabilization, water quality protection, and wildlife habitat.
Special Management Zone (SMZ) An area of varying width adjacent to a watercourse in which special management precautions are necessary to protect natural resources.
Streamside Management Zone The term Streamside Management Zone has been changed to Special Management Zone.
Swale A gently sloping depression designed to transport intermittent runoff from storm events.
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Turbidity An optical measurement of the relative clarity of water.
Water Bar A mound of soil built across a light-duty road, skid trail, or fireline, for the purpose of diverting surface water.
Waterbody Any river, creek, slough, canal, lake, reservoir, pond, sinkhole or other natural or artificial watercourse which flows within a defined channel or is contained within a discernable shoreline.
Water Control Structure Any structure used to regulate surface or subsurface water levels.
Water Turnout The extension of a road ditch into a vegetated area to provide for the dispersion and filtration of stormwater runoff.
Wetland For the purpose of this Manual, Wetlands are those land types listed in Appendix 5.
Wetland Flow-way That area of a flowing wetland where stormwater moves within variable dimensions instead of a well defined channel. The area of flow in this case has enough general confinement to exhibit some stormflow characteristics, and is evidenced by, but not limited to: drift lines/racks, sediment deposits, soil and root scour, absence of litter/ground cover - all in a generally linear position.
Wildfire Any fire other than a controlled, prescribed fire.
Windrow Logging debris and unmerchantable woody vegetation, piled in rows on the contour of the land. |
