A cover type that is characterized
by:
1) tree cover sufficient to produce timber or other wood
products, and
2) an aerial density (crown closure) of at least
25 percent (Anderson
et. Al., 1976).4
Any plan that a municipality or group of municipalities writes to guide certain
aspects of that respective community's development. It is initiated by the community writing it and contains goals and objectives, policy
recommendations, and maps. Any municipality may plan for the physical development and zoning of territory within its borders.
A plan for an area under the jurisdiction of a unit of government that may include, but is not
limited to, policies, goals, and interrelated plans for private and
public land use, transportation systems, community facilities, natural resources and capital improvements. The plan represents the decisions of local people as expressed through units of government. This type of plan may also be called a general plan or master plan. NOTE: In Wisconsin, State Statute 66.1001 says that a comprehensive plan shall contain elements addressing: Issues and opportunities; Housing; Transportation; Utilities & community facilities; Agricultural, natural and cultural resources; Economic development; Intergovernmental cooperation; Land-use; and Implementation. See the Center for Land Use Education's website for more information on Comprehensive Planning.
Reduction in size of forestland ownerships that
frequently results from division of properties during land
transfer. This is usually the first stage of
fragmentation. Parcelization does not necessarily have
ecological consequences; the problem occurs when the large
number of property owners practice conflicting management or
development.
The process in which large, contiguous forest
landscapes are broken into smaller, more isolated fragments,
surrounded by non-forest uses (agricultural lands
and urban/suburban development).1
sum of Gross sales,
revenues, or shipments.
Economic output is used to calculate value added, which is used
to compute the gross domestic product (GDP).3
In economics, where
the average cost of production, and therefore the unit cost,
decreases as output increases. The high capital costs of
machinery or a factory are spread across a greater number of
units as more are produced. This may be a result of automation
or
mass production. If output increased by a factor of two, for
example, the cost of production would increase by less than a
factor of two.16
describes an area of land that drains downslope
to the lowest point. The water moves by means of a network of
drainage pathways that may be underground or on the surface.
Generally, these pathways converge into a stream and river
system that becomes progressively larger as the water moves
downstream.5
A cover type that is characterized
by:
1) tree cover sufficient to produce timber or other wood
products, and
2) an aerial density (crown closure) of at least
25 percent (Anderson
et. Al., 1976).4
(a) Solid fragmental
material that originates from weathering of rocks and is
transported or deposited by air, water, or ice, or that
accumulates by other natural agents, such as chemical
precipitation from solution or secretion by organisms, and that
forms in layers on the Earth's surface at ordinary temperatures
in a loose, unconsolidated form, e.g. sand, gravel, silt, mud,
till, loess, alluvium. (b) Strictly, solid material that has
settled down from a state of suspension in a liquid.7
Nutrients are
chemical elements and compounds found in the environment that
plants and animals need to grow and survive. For water-quality
investigations the various forms of nitrogen and phosphorus are
the nutrients of interest. The forms include nitrate, nitrite,
ammonia, organic nitrogen (in the form of plant material or
other organic compounds), and phosphates (orthophosphate and
others). Nitrate is the most common form of nitrogen and
phosphates are the most common forms of phosphorus found in
natural waters. High concentrations of nutrients in water bodies
can potentially cause
eutrophication and
hypoxia.8
Wisconsin
Threatened Species: Any species which
appears likely, within the foreseeable future, on the basis of
scientific evidence to become endangered.
Wisconsin
Endangered Species: Any species whose
continued existence as a viable component of this state�s wild
animals or wild plants is determined by the Department to be in
jeopardy on the basis of scientific evidence.9
A species living in
an environment that it is not native to; likely introduced by
humans intentionally or unintentionally. Exotics are not
necessarily problem species.
A plant, animal, or organism that is non-native to the ecosystem under
consideration, and that is likely to cause economic or environmental
harm or harm to human health. Often take over an environment by
choking out other vegetation or competing with other species for
food and results in the decline of native species.10
The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is the area
where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland
vegetation. This makes the WUI a focal area for
human-environment conflicts such as wildland fires, habitat
fragmentation, invasive species, and biodiversity decline.15
includes
species and their proportion to each other in a given system.
For vegetation and fauna this includes the dominant as well as
less common species. In landscapes and ecosystems, geology,
soils, water, and climate are often included as part of
composition.13
Dicotyledonous
trees, usually broadleaf and deciduous, which can be divided
into two broad timber groups:
Soft hardwoods:
Soft-textured hardwoods such as boxelder, red and silver
maples, hackberry, loblolly-bay, sweetgum, yellow-poplar,
magnolia, sweetbay, water tupelo, blackgum, sycamore,
cottonwood, black cherry, willow, basswood, and elm.
Hard hardwoods:
Hard-textured hardwoods such as sugar maple, birch, hickory,
dogwood, persimmon (forest grown), black locust, beech, ash,
honeylocust, holly, black walnut, mulberry, and all commercial
oaks.
the volume of sound
wood in cubic feet (ft) in trees that are at least 5.0 inches
(in.) in diameter at breast height (d.b.h.), from a 1-ft stump
to a minimum 4.0-inch top diameter (outside bark) of the central
stem or to the point where the central stem breaks into limbs.14
