Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Natural Resources
Forest Resource Division
Control of Open and Prescribed Burning
Section R. 281.421 - Definitions
Current through Vol. 24-04, March 15, 2024
Rule 1. As used in these rules:
(a) "Continuous cover of fuels" means a cover of vegetation capable of sustaining and carrying fire over the area intended to be burned.
(b) "Director" means the director of Michigan department of natural resources or his/her designee.
(c) "Prescribed burn" or "prescribed burning" means the burning, in compliance with a prescription and to meet planned fire or land management objectives, of a continuous cover of fuels.
(d) "Land management objective" means a description of the desired future condition of the vegetation on a site at a specified point in time.
(e) "Escaped fire" means a prescribed fire that leaves the boundary of the area prescribed and authorized in the permit, and unable to be contained with the resources on-scene to conduct the burn.
(f) "Burn permit" means authorization to burn flammable material or conduct a prescribed burn, issued by state or local officials, written or verbally.
(g) "Prescription" means a written plan establishing the criteria necessary for starting, controlling, and extinguishing a burn.
(h) "Smoke management plan" means the state's interagency plan for tracking and managing the emissions from prescribed and wildland fires.
(i) "Vegetative land clearing" means activities to remove the existing vegetation on a site to convert the site for a different use.
(j) "NFDRS" is the national fire danger rating system.
(k) "CFFBPS" is the Canadian forest fire behavior prediction system.
(l) "Prescribed burn manager trainee" is an individual who performs some or all of the functions of a prescribed burn manager in a training role, under the oversight and guidance of a certified prescribed burn manager. The certified burn manager retains responsibility for all aspects of the burn.
