10.02: Definitions
Director means the Director of Forests and Parks,
Department of Environmental Management or his or her designee.
Experience of
a professional nature
means forest management planning and decision-making which requires the
integration of biological, social, and economic information over a multi-year
time frame to meet objectives of a forest landowner, and, for credit purposes,
shall have been substantially of a full-time nature.
Experience of
a technical nature means
forestry work in which the individual is responsible for carrying out a forest
management action or activity, and, for credit purposes, shall have been
substantially of a full-time nature.
Forestry means the science, the art, and the
practice of conserving and managing for human benefit the natural resources,
including trees, other plants, animals, soil and water, that occur on, and in
association with, forest lands.
Licensed
Forester means one who
has obtained a Massachusetts license to practice forestry under the provisions
of 304 CMR 10.00 as promulgated pursuant to M.G.L. c.132, §§ 47 through 50.
Practice of
forestry means any
professional services requiring the application of forestry principles and
techniques, including but not limited to: forest inventory, forest management
planning, timber appraisal, the responsibility for the direction and
supervision of silvicultural activities, use and protection of forested areas,
and the evaluation of the economic and biological consequences of forest
management activities.
Professional
services means forestry
services offered for compensation to forest landowners or their agents.
Revoke means to annul, void, cancel or take
back a license to practice forestry.
Society of
American Foresters or SAF
means the national professional forestry organization which, by an act of
Congress, is the only body authorized to accredit programs offering a
bachelor's degree in forestry.
Suspend means to temporarily withdraw a license to practice forestry for a specified period of time.