12:12:02:01.  Definitions. Terms used in this chapter mean:

          (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.

          Source: 17 SDR 12, effective August 1, 1990.

          General Authority: SDCL 21-10-26.

          Law Implemented: SDCL 21-10-26.