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                                  TITLE  38
                        FORESTRY, FOREST PRODUCTS AND
                              STUMPAGE DISTRICTS
                                  CHAPTER 1
                              IDAHO FORESTRY ACT
    38-101.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter, the following terms are
defined as follows:
    (a)  "Forest land" means any land which has upon it sufficient brush or
flammable forest growth of any kind or size, living or dead, standing or down,
including debris or growth following a fire or removal of forest products, to
constitute a fire menace to life (including animal) or property.
    (b)  "Range land" means any land which is not cultivated and which has
upon it native grasses or other forage plants making it best suited for
grazing of domestic and wild animals and which land is adjacent to or
intermingled with forest land.
    (c)  "Person" shall mean and include any person or persons, and any
corporation, firm or other entity.
    (d)  "Everyone" or "anyone" shall mean any and all person or persons,
corporations, firms, or other entities.
    (e)  "State" shall mean the state of Idaho.
    (f)  "Board" shall mean the state board of land commissioners.
    (g)  "State forester" as used in this chapter and wherever else it is used
in the Idaho Code, shall mean the director of the department of lands or his
duly authorized delegates or employees, including fire wardens and deputy fire
wardens.
    (h)  "Fire warden" or "forest warden" shall mean duly appointed fire
wardens or their deputies.
    (i)  "Forest products" shall mean any ties, logs, poles, posts, cordwood,
pulpwood or other timber products.
    (j)  "Slashing areas" shall mean areas upon which, after cutting of the
trees or brush preparatory to clearing, or after the cutting of any forest
products, sufficient flammable material remains upon the ground as a result of
such operations to constitute a menace to life or property.
    (k)  "Slash" or "slashing" shall mean brush, severed limbs, poles, tops
and/or other waste material incident to such cutting or to the clearing of
land, which are four (4) inches and under in diameter.
    (l)  "Forest fire" as used in this chapter means any fire burning
uncontrolled on any land covered wholly or in part by timber and/or other
potential forest products, slash, brush, or other flammable vegetation.
    (m)  "Range fire" means any fire burning uncontrolled on any range land.
    (n)  Whenever the term "state cooperative board of forestry" is used in
any other section of the Idaho Code, it shall be construed to mean the state
board of land commissioners.
    (o)  "Administrator" means the head of a division organized within the
department of lands.
    (p)  "Community forestry" or "urban forestry" means the management of the
trees and associated vegetation in rural and urban communities.
    (q)  "Improved lot or parcel" means forest land upon which a residential
structure exists as determined by the department. In making such
determination, the department may consult with the county assessor.