Agricultural and Forest Waste Feasibility Study

Appendices:

Appendix A: Definitions

These definitions are to be used only for the purpose of this report and should not be construed as legal definitions.  

Agricultural Crop Residue: Means plant material from agricultural sources.  The material remaining or left on the field site after the products are harvested

Agricultural Wood: This is wood derived from whole orchard removal and pruning harvested annually.

Board Foot: The amount of timber equivalent to a piece of wood 12 inches square and 1 inch thick.

BTU (British Thermal Unit): The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit.

Chapparral: These are an ecological community composed of heavily branched shrub plants adapted to dry summers and moist winters that occur especially in Southern California.  It is generally less than 15 feet tall and usually evergreen.

Forest: A complex community of plants and animals in which trees are the most conspicuous members.  A mixed forest includes both coniferous and deciduous trees.

Forest Wood Waste: These materials in the form of forest slash, mill residues (i.e. sawdust, bark and slab wood) logs, limbs, stumps, and brush that are not marketable for fiber or lumber products.

Fodder: Something fed to domestic animals (i.e. coarse food for cattle, horses, or sheep.)

Environmental Mitigation: As used in this report, means the use  of materials, such as rice straw, for erosion control and fire rehabilitation, or other remedial uses.

Lumber: Means processed Wood for building, manufacturing, landscaping, packaging, and processed wood from demolitions.

Miscellaneous Agricultural Wastes: These are waste materials generated in the processing of olives, almonds, prunes, peaches, and many others.  These materials include nut shells, grape and olive pomace and stone fruit pits.

Lumber: Means processed wood for building, manufacturing, landscaping, packaging, and processed wood from demolition.

Miscellaneous Agricultural Wastes: These are waste materials generated in the processing of olives, almonds, prunes, peaches, a nd many others. These materials include nut shells, grape and olive pomace and stone fruit pits.

Off-Farm Alternatives: Means the use of an agricultural waste off-site of the farm property for use in energy conversion, manufacturing and construction products, environmental mitigation, and livestock feed.

On-Farm alternative: Means the alternative use of an agricultural waste on-site of the farm property (i.e. other than burning), which is typically incorporated into the soil.

Prunings and Trimmings: Means woody plant material from any public or private landscape. This category includes prunings, shrubs, and small branches.

Pulpwood: Wood cut and prepared for manufacture into wood pulp, commonly used in the manufacture of paper, oriented strand board, hardboard and other wood products.

Ruminant: The act characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed as with cattle, sheep, etc.

Silivculture: The science and art of cultivating forest crops based on knowledge of the life history and general characteristics of forest trees and on the varying factors at particular sites.

Slash: The residue left on the ground after harvesting timer, including branches and limbs, which enrich the soil as they decompose and provide habitat for a variety of wildlife species.

Stands: Trees of a particular species and age growing in a specific area as a collective unity.

Stover: The dried Stalks of cereal crops.

Timber: A general term for forest crops and stands containing trees of commercial size and quality suitable for sawing into lumber.

Woodpulp: Wood fiber separated by mechanical or chemical mean s used to make paper and other products.

<Back to Bibliography Next> Feasibility Table of Contents