Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act: The term advisory panel means the Eastside Forest Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel established under section 6(a). The term collaborative group means a group of individuals that meets the requirements of section 8(a)(2). The term covered area means the area selected by the Secretary under section 4(a)(1) that is— within the State; and not within the area covered by the Record of Decision for Amendments to Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Planning Documents Within the Range of the Northern Spotted Owl, dated April 1994.
The term Decision Notice means the decision notice entitled Decision Notice for the Revised Continuation of Interim Management Direction Establishing Riparian, Ecosystem and Wildlife Standards for Timber Sales, United States Forest Service Region 6, Colville, Deschutes, Fremont, Malheur, Ochoco, Okanogan, Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman and Winema National Forests in Oregon and Washington and approved by the Pacific Northwest Regional Forester on June 6, 1995. The term emergency condition means a condition— that results in an— imminent risk to life or property; or immediate impairment of the public use and enjoyment of a trail, road, highway, public facility, or public land; and with respect to subparagraph (A)(ii), the urgency to address the emergency of which outweighs the benefits of full notice and comment.
The term forest health means conditions that enable forested land— to be durable, resilient, and less prone to uncharacteristic wildfire, insect, or pathogen outbreaks, while— supporting ecosystem services and populations of native species; and allowing for natural disturbances; to maintain or develop species composition, ecosystem function and structure, hydrologic function, and sediment regimes that are within an acceptable range that considers— historic variability; and anticipated future conditions; and to be resistant and resilient to uncharacteristic events.
The term forest stand means a contiguous group of trees that are sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure and that are growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality to be a distinguishable unit. The term Initiative means an initiative established by the Secretary— to restore and improve the ecological structure, composition, and function and the natural processes of watersheds within the National Forest System; to preserve and create local jobs in rural communities that are located in or near National Forest System land; to sustain the local wood products infrastructure and community capacity that is necessary for the appropriate management and restoration of National Forest System land; to promote cooperation and collaboration in the management of National Forest System land; to carry out collaborative projects to restore forest health and watershed health and to reduce the risk of uncharacteristic disturbances from fire, insects, and disease to communities, watersheds, and natural resources through a collaborative process of planning, prioritizing, and implementing ecological restoration, hazardous fuel reduction, and other vegetation management projects; to collect information from the projects carried out under this Act in an effort to better understand the manner in which to improve forest restoration and management activities; that includes all National Forest System land within the covered area; and under which not more than 15 National Forests may be selected to participate.
The term inventoried roadless area means 1 of the areas identified in the set of inventoried roadless area maps contained in the Forest Service Roadless Areas Conservation, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2, dated November 2000. The term National Forest System has the meaning given the term in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 ( 16 U.S.C. 1609(a) ). The term pilot landscape means a National Forest entirely within the covered area on which a project is being carried out under section 4003 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303) as of January 1, 2013.
The term plant association means a description of a plant community that— would potentially, in the absence of a disturbance, occupy a site; and may be aggregated into 1 or more groups based on similarities in plant species, composition, environment, and productivity. The term plant association includes, with respect to a forested site, species representing tree, shrub, and herbaceous layers. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture (acting through the Chief of the Forest Service).
The term State means the State of Oregon. The term uncharacteristic means a wildfire, insect, or pathogen outbreak or level of forest fuel, the severity, size, frequency, or quantity of which exceeds the historic range of variability. The term watershed area means 1 or more subwatersheds (also known as 6th code hydrologic units). The term watershed health means landscape conditions that enable riparian and aquatic ecosystems— to capture, store, and release water, sediment, wood, and nutrients; to provide for water temperatures that are within the range of variability of the natural regimes for the processes described in subparagraph (A); and to create and sustain functional riparian, aquatic, and wetland habitats that are capable of supporting diverse populations of native aquatic- and riparian-dependent species.
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