GENERAL36676

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 3/16/2006
• Doc Name: Final EIS & Record of Decision for the Dry Fork Lease 2nd Half
• From: US Forest Service
• To: DMG
• Permit Index Doc Type: Other Permits
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Glossary and Acronyms
Chapter 7
slump -Amass movement process characterized
by a ]andslide involving a shearing and rotary
movement of a generally independent mass of rock
and earth along a curved slip surface.
snag - A standing dead tree from which the leaves
and most of the limbs have fallen. Such a tree may
be at its original height or have been broken off.
soil survey - The systematic examination,
description, classification, and mapping of soils in
an area.
soil texture -The relative proportions of sand, silt,
and clay in a soil.
stipulations -Requirements that are part of the
terms of a mineral lease. Some stipulations are
standard on all Federal Leases. Other stipulations
may be applied to specific leases at the discretion of
the surface management agency to pro-tect valuable
surface resources or uses existing on those leases.
subsidence - Surface depression caused by
underground mining.
subsidence trough - the area of the surface
subsided.
suitability -The appropriateness of the application
of certain resource management practices to a
particular area of land, as determined by an analysis
of the economic and environmental consequences
and the alternative uses foregone. A unit of land
may be suitable for a variety of individual or
combined management practices. For example, in
this document, each prescription area has been
identified as suitable or not suitable for timber
production and management reflects the
designation.
threatened species - A plant or animal species
likely to become endangered throughout all or a
specific portion of their range within the
foreseeable future, as designated by the Secretary of
the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce under the
Endangered Species Act of 1973.
topography -Physical shape of the ground surface;
the configuration of land surface including its relief,
elevation, and the position of its natural and
manmade features.
understory- The trees and other vegetation
growing under a more or less continuous cover of
branches and foliage known as the overstory.
unsuitability criteria -The 20 criteria described in
43 CFR 3461, the application of which results in an
assessment of Federal coal lands as suitable or
unsuitable for surface coal mining.
viability -The tendency of a species to remain at
population levels sufficient to assure its continued
existence on the landscape, expressed as a
likelihood of achievement.
viable population - A population that has [he
estimated numbers and distribution of reproductive
individuals to insure that its continued existence is
well distributed in the planning area.
visual quality objective - An obsolete term used in
scenery management to identify a set of measurable
goals for the management of forest visual resources.
visual resource -Apart of the landscape important
for its scenic quality. It may include a composite of
terrain, geologic features, or vegetation.
watershed -The region or area drained by a river,
stream, etc.; drainage area.
wetlands -Those areas that are inundated or
saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency
and duration sufficient, under normal
circumstances, to support a prevalence of vegetative
or aquatic life that requires saturated or seasonally
saturated soil conditions for growth and
reproduction. Wetlands include marshes, bogs,
sloughs, potholes, river overflows, mud flats, wet
meadows, seeps, and springs [see 33 CFR
328.3(a)(7)(b)].
wilderness - A Congressionally designated area
that is essentially unaltered and undisturbed by
humans. Management of this area preserves and
protects its physical and biological characteristics.
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