Glossary for Forest and Forestry
Alluvial forest, floodplain forest
Anthropogenic regeneration, artificial regeneration
Bite damage, overbrowsing
Blight, brown rot
Blow down, windbreak
Clear cutting areas, clear cutting
Clearing, final cutting
Coppice, low forest
Debarking damage, fraying
Diameter at breast height (= DBH)
Extraction, hauling or skidding
Extraction line, skidding or hauling lane
Felling by buyer, independent timber cutting or logging
Felling rate, prescribed cut
Forest community, natural
Forest conservation, forest reconstruction
Forest decline, forest damage of a new kind
Forest management planning
Forest management plan, silvicultural plan
Forest plantation, crop
Forest reclamation, forest development
Future trees (“Z” trees for German future = Zukunft), “Z”-tree selection
Game damage (in the forest)
Grade of slenderness, slenderness ratio
Growing stock, stocked supply/supply “in stock”
Growing stock, wood supply
Growth, increment
Harvesting age, ripeness for cutting
High forest, timber tree
Insect damage, insect pest
Logwood, rough timber
Mean diameter, average diameter
Nature-oriented silviculture, nature-oriented forestry
Negative selection, negative phenotype selection
Pasture woodland, grazing forest
Pesticide, plant protecting agents
Pests = damaging organisms
Pole forest, pole wood
Positive selection, positive phenotype selection
Preliminary / early regeneration, advance planting
Preliminary use, subsidiary felling
Pruning, lopping
Regeneration by group selection, group selection felling
Regeneration under shelterwood, regeneration underneath a canopy
Rejuvenation, regeneration
Reserved standard, hold-over
Rotation period, felling cycle
Shaft = trunk, log
Solid cubic metre (Fm for German/Austrian Festmeter)
Spacing regulation,stand improvement
Stability (stand resistance)
Stand = forest stand
Stand regeneration, establishing of a stand
Stacked metre, cubic metre (Rm for German Raummeter)
Stocking, forest stand
Sulphur dioxide (SO2)
Target diameter, exploitable diameter
Threshold value for entries of pollutants/contaminants
Total growth capacity (GWL)
Tree felling, timber cutting
Unregulated felling, compulsory utilization, enforced felling
Utilization / yield
Vegetation period, growth cycle
Vegetation, potentially natural
Virgin (primary) forest, primeval forest
Winter desication, frost drought
Wood growth, wood increment