2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 12, Chapters 471 - 535
ORS Chapter 527
527.310 Definitions for ORS 527.310 to 527.370.

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]