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Glossary <br />' and (5) public participation utilized in <br />reaching management decisions. IGNEOUS. Said of a rock or mineral that <br />solidified from molten or partly molten <br /> material. <br /> FORAGE. All browse and herbaceous <br />foods that aze available to grazing anunals. <br />IMPACT. The effect, influence, alteration, <br /> or imprint caused by an action. <br /> FRAGILE SOIL. A soil that is especially <br />vulnerable to erosion or deterioration due to <br />IN SITU. In the original place. <br /> its physical chazacteristics and/or location. <br /> Disturbance to the surface or the vegetative LAND TREATMENT. All methods of <br /> cover can initiate a rapid cycle of loss and artificial range improvement and soil <br /> destruction of the soil material, structure, stabilization such as reseeding, brush control <br /> and ability to sustain a biotic community. (chemical and mechanical), pitting, <br /> furrowing, water spreading, etc. <br /> GRAZING SYSTEM. Scheduled grazing <br /> use and non-use of an allotment to reach LEASABLE MINERAL. Oil, gas, sodium, <br /> identified goals or objectives by improving potassium, phosphate, coal, oil shale, taz <br /> the quality and quantity of vegetation. sands, and asphaltic materials. <br /> GROUNDCOVER. The azea of ground LEASE. A contract in legal form that <br /> surface occupied by the stem(s) of a range provides for the right to develop and <br /> plant, as contrasted with the full spread of its produce oil and as resources for a specific <br /> herbage or foliage, generally measured at period of time under certain agreed-upon <br /> one inch above soil level. terms and conditions. <br /> LEASE STIPUL <br />TIONS <br />Addi <br />i <br />l <br /> GROWING SEASON. Generally, the A <br />. <br />t <br />ona <br /> period of the yeaz during which the specific terms and conditions that change the <br /> temperature of vegetation remains manner in which operation may be <br /> sufficiently high to allow plant growth. conducted on a lease, or modify the lease <br /> rights granted. <br /> HABITAT. A specific set of physical <br /> conditions that surround a single species, a LEASABLE MINERALS. Those minerals <br /> group of species, or a lazge community. In or materials designated as leasable under the <br /> wildlife management, the major components Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. They include <br /> of habitat aze considered to be food, water, coal, phosphate, asphalt, sulphur, potassium <br /> cover, and living space. and sodium minerals, and oil and gas. <br />e Geothermal resources are also leasable <br /> HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY. The rate under the Geothermal Steam Act of ] 970. <br /> of flow of water in gallons per day though a <br /> cross section of one square foot and a unit MINERAL ESTATE (MINERAL <br /> hydraulic gradient, at the prevailing RIGHTS). The ownership of minerals, <br /> temperature (SI system units, meters/day including rights necessary for access, <br /> centimeters/second). exploration, development, mining, ore <br /> dressing, and transportation operations. <br /> <br /> <br />