Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

High-strength engineered wood product made from veneers (thin rotary-peeled sheets of wood) bonded together with adhesives under heat and pressure, and used for structural applications.

See Cross-laminated timber (CLT), Rotary peeling, Veneer.

Removal of vegetation to convert land to another land use.

See Broadscale clearing, Deforestation, Forest clearing.

Formal title, ownership or occupancy of land.

The National Forest Inventory classifies land into six tenure classes (Leasehold forest, Multiple-use public forest, Nature conservation reserve, Other Crown land, Private forest, and Unresolved tenure).

See Leasehold forest, Multiple-use public forest, Nature conservation reserve, Other Crown land, Private forest, Unresolved tenure.

An area to which harvested logs are hauled for sorting, processing, loading or stockpiling.

See Harvesting.

A polar-orbiting satellite with an eight-band, multi-spectral scanning radiometer providing medium-resolution imaging information of the Earth’s entire surface. Landsat data provide information on vegetation cover and vegetation change (e.g. after fire).

Crown land held under leasehold title and generally privately managed.

One of six land tenure classes used to classify land in the National Forest Inventory.

See Crown land, Land tenure, Leasehold title, National Forest Inventory.

Land title held under a contract by which one party conveys the land to another party for a specified time and purpose, usually in return for a periodic payment.

An instrument, law, regulation, act or process that has associated legal rights, duties and/or requirements.

See Non-legally binding instrument.

See Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR).

A technology that uses laser (light) pulses from (most commonly) aircraft to collect information on terrain and vegetation features (such as tree height), based on the return time of pulses back to the sensor.

A woody structure at or below ground level on some shrubs and trees (e.g. mallee eucalypts), from which regrowth can occur after fire or drought.

See Coppice, Epicormic growth, Mallee.

The uppermost layer of the forest floor consisting chiefly of fallen leaves, bark, wooden debris and other decaying organic matter.

See Biomass.

See Forest lock-up.

See Landing.

See Harvesting.

See Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL).