§ 41.17.010 Declaration of intent
§ 41.17.020 Division of forestry and fire protection established
§ 41.17.030 Responsibilities of division
§ 41.17.041 Board of Forestry
§ 41.17.043 Terms of office
§ 41.17.045 Removal of members
§ 41.17.047 Powers and duties of board
§ 41.17.055 Powers and duties of the commissioner
§ 41.17.060 Regulatory and administrative standards
§ 41.17.070 Administrative plan and report
§ 41.17.080 Regulations
§ 41.17.081 Civil immunity
§ 41.17.082 Control of infestations and disease
§ 41.17.083 Clearing of forest land for non-timber purposes
§ 41.17.085 Permit applications
§ 41.17.087 Variation from requirements
§ 41.17.090 Notification of plans to harvest timber
§ 41.17.098 Interagency coordination and reevaluation
§ 41.17.100 Deployment of broadcast chemicals
§ 41.17.110 Conversion of forest land to other uses

Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 41 > Chapter 17 > Article 1 - Administration and Management

  • action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • board: means the Board of Forestry established in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • broadcast chemicals: includes pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizers, poisons, and any other substances
    (A) used for silvicultural management or related purposes. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • division: means the division of forestry and fire protection. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • forest land: means land stocked or having been stocked with forest trees of any size and not currently developed for nonforest use, regardless of whether presently available or accessible for commercial purposes, and includes any such land under state, municipal, or private ownership. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • forest landowner: means a person who owns forest land, but does not include the owner of mineral or subsurface rights only. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • multiple use: means
    (A) the management of all the various resources of forest land so that they are used in the combination that will best meet the needs of the citizens of the state, making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related values, benefits, and services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • municipality: means a political subdivision incorporated under the laws of the state that is a home rule or general law city, a home rule or general law borough, or a unified municipality. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • operations: means timber harvesting or activates associated with timber harvesting or forest development unless exempted under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • operator: means a person who is engaged in timber harvesting or activities associated with timber harvesting or forest development, or who contracts with others to conduct operations for that person, except a person who is engaged in an operation as an employee with wages or piecework as the sole compensation. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • person: has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • riparian area: means
    (A) the areas subject to riparian protection standards in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • significant impairment of the productivity of the land and water: means an activity that may foreseeably result in prolonged or substantial damage to renewable resources or prolonged or substantial reduction of the continuing capability of the land or water to produce renewable resources at their natural or historic levels. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • sustained yield: means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high level annual or regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of forest land and water without significant impairment of the productivity of the land and water, but does not require that timber be harvested in a non-declining yield basis over a rotation period. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • timber owner: means a person who owns timber on forest land or who has the rights to timber, but does not own the land itself. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
  • Type I-A water body: means , in Region I, an anadromous water body that
    (A) is a stream or river of any size having an average gradient of eight percent or less, with banks held in place by vegetation, channels that are not incised, and a substrate composed of rubble, gravel, sand, or silt. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950