As used in and for the purposes of ORS § 527.310 to 527.370:

(1) ‘Control’ means reduction of resource losses or pest occurrences to an acceptable level by direct and immediate application of effective prevention, suppression or eradication strategies, or any combination thereof.

(2) ‘Eradication’ means the implementation of strategies through host or pest destruction or removal, or by the use of pesticides, to contain or completely eliminate exotic pests in a specific area, or both.

(3) ‘Exotic’ means any pest that has been accidentally or deliberately introduced into an area where it does not naturally occur.

(4) ‘Forestland’ means any nonfederal land which has enough timber or forest growths, standing or down, to constitute, in the judgment of the State Board of Forestry, forest pests of a nature to be harmful, detrimental and injurious to the management objectives for the site.

(5) ‘Integrated pest management’ means a coordinated decision-making process that utilizes the most appropriate of all reasonably available means, tactics or strategies blended together to minimize the impact of forest pests in an environmentally and economically sound manner to meet site specific management objectives.

(6) ‘Native’ means any pest that is indigenous or naturally occurring in a particular area.

(7) ‘Owner’ means any person owning nonfederal forestlands or timber as shown on the latest records of the tax collector of the county in which the forestlands or timber is situated. Where timber is owned entirely separate and apart from the land whereon it grows or is situated, ‘owner’ means any person owning such timber as shown on the latest records of the tax collector of the county in which the timber is situated.

(8) ‘Pest’ means any forest insect or disease which causes or may cause damage that prevents or interferes with management objectives in a specific area.

(9) ‘Pesticide’ has the meaning given that term in ORS § 634.006.

(10) ‘Prevention’ means the implementation of strategies designed to minimize the impact of a pest before an outbreak occurs, including but not limited to, release or enhancement of natural enemies and silvicultural activities to increase tree vigor or otherwise reduce tree susceptibility to pest damage. ‘Prevention’ requires the incorporation of integrated pest management into overall forest resource management in order to create ecological conditions unfavorable for the reproduction or survival of pest organisms.

(11) ‘Strategies’ may include, but are not limited to, physical and biological methods and application of pesticides.

(12) ‘Suppression’ means the implementation of intervention strategies designed to reduce native pest populations to acceptable levels necessary to meet forest resource management objectives in a specified area. [Amended by 1967 c.87 § 1; 1991 c.686 § 1]