A Guide to Preparing Draft Sustainable Forest Management Plans, Sustainable Forest Management Permit Applications and Annual Logging Plans
Appendix 2: Glossary of terms
Amenity values: Defined in the Forests Act 1949 as "those natural or physical qualities and characteristics of an area that contribute to people’s appreciation of its pleasantness, aesthetic coherence, and cultural and recreational attributes".
Approved: In relation to an SFM Plan, means approved by the Secretary of Forestry under section 67F of the Forests Act 1949.
Coupe: An area of clear-cut (felled) forest where all trees are felled in the designated area.
Indigenous species: A species of flora or fauna that occurs naturally in New Zealand or arrived in New Zealand without human assistance.
Indigenous forest land: Defined in the Forests Act 1949 as "land wholly or predominantly under the cover of indigenous flora".
Introduced species: A species of flora or fauna that is not an indigenous species.
Landholding: Defined in the Forests Act 1949 as "an estate, right, title, or interest of any kind in or over an area of land by which indigenous timber may be harvested; but does not include an interest by way of charge or security".
Forest owner: Any person who owns a landholding and includes the owners of any landholding where it is owned by two or more persons and a group of owners of landholdings who are operating under the same sustainable management plan.
MAF: The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Registered: (a) In relation to an SFM Plan or SFM Permit, recorded in accordance with section 67K of the Forests Act 1949; (b) In relation to a sawmill, registered in accordance with section 67D of the Forests Act 1949.
Sustainable forest management (SFM): The management of an area of indigenous forest land in a way that maintains the ability of the forest growing on that land to continue to provide a full range of products and amenities in perpetuity while retaining the forest’s natural values.
SFM Permit: A Sustainable Forest Management Permit issued under section 67M of the Forests Act 1949.
SFM Plan: A Sustainable Forest Management Plan approved under section 67F of the Forests Act 1949.
Timber: Defined in the Forests Act 1949 as "trees (excluding cuttings, suckers and shoots), woody plants able to be milled, and includes branches, roots and stumps of trees and other woody plants able to be milled, logs woodchips, wood products, veneer, tree ferns and tree fern fibre".
Trees: Defined in the Forests Act 1949 as "not only timber trees, but also all other kinds of trees, shrubs, and bushes, seedlings, saplings, cuttings, suckers, and shoots of every description".
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