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A road or trail that is not a forest road or trail or a temporary road or trail and that is not included in a forest transportation atlas.

A burn by a surface fire that can consume ground vegetation and "ladder" fuels.

The trees and woody shrubs growing beneath the over story in a stand of trees.

Actions that maintain a forest or stand of trees composed of intermingling trees that differ markedly in age. Cutting methods that develop and maintain uneven-aged stands are single-tree selection and group selection.

Tree harvest that is not part of the allowable sale quantity (ASQ). It can include the removal of cull or dead material or non-commercial species. It also includes volume removed from non-suitable areas for research, to meet objectives other than timber production (such as wildlife habitat improvement), or to improve administrative sites (such as campgrounds.)

Forest land that is not managed for timber production. Reasons may be matters of policy, ecology, technology, silviculture, or economics.

An estimate of proper range use. Forty to fifty percent of the annual growth is often used as a rule of thumb on ranges in good to excellent condition. It can also mean the amount of forage planned to be used to accelerate range rehabilitation.