South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 12 - Department of Agriculture
Article 12:12 - Forestry
Chapter 12:12:02 - Logging slash abandonment and treatment standards
Section 12:12:02:01 - Definitions

(1) "Abandonment," withdrawal of logging operations from an area with no intent to provide satisfactory treatment of all logging slash;

(2) "Burning," igniting piled or unpiled slash under prescribed conditions to reduce the amount and continuity of fuels;

(3) "Chipped," sliced, ground, or pulverized limbs, branches, or other logging debris that has been put through a specially designed portable chipping machine to produce small pieces of wood that are scattered over the area, producing a compact mat of wood debris;

(4) "Habitable structure," a residence, summer home, or other structure inhabited by people on a continual, seasonal, or intermittent basis;

(5) "Lopping," cutting of limbs, branches, treetops, cull logs, and other separate vegetation remaining after harvest into lengths so that the remaining logging slash will lie close to the ground;

(6) "Lopping and scattering," a combination of lopping and scattering that results in a more even and compact distribution of logging slash than lopping or scattering alone;

(7) "Percent slope," a measurement of slope steepness calculated by dividing a measured horizontal distance into the vertical distance, which is the distance from the horizontal line to the ground, and multiplying the answer by 100, using a formula expressed as:

Vertical distance = ______ X 100 = Percent slope

Horizontal distance

(8) "Piling," laying, placing, heaping, or stacking logging slash into piles to facilitate intended burning or to meet other silvicultural purposes;

(9) "Piling and burning," a combination of piling slash and igniting piles;

(10) "Prescribed burning," controlled application of fire to fuels, in a natural or modified state, under conditions of weather, fuel moisture, soil moisture, and topography that allow a fire to be confined to a predetermined area and produce effects that meet planned objectives of silviculture and fire hazard reduction;

(11) "Red slash," a condition of the logging slash, usually conifers, reached when the needles turn reddish-brown while still attached to the limbs;

(12) "Removal," removal of logging slash by lifting, pushing, or taking it away from a logged area in order to utilize the material or dispose of it safely;

(13) "Satisfactory treatment," treatment of logging slash that meets the standards in this chapter;

(14) "Scattering," spreading of lopped or unlopped logging slash evenly over the ground so that the remaining slash will lie close to the ground; and

(15) "Silviculture," the science and art of growing and tending forests based on a knowledge of the life history and general characteristics of forest trees and stands.