Glossary of Terms

ABARE:

Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics

ABS:

Australian Bureau of Statistics

AFC:

Australian Forestry Council

Allocation:

the right of access to a parcel of

wood.

Balance of trade:

the difference between the

value of a country's

exports and imports of merchandise or of goods and service.

Cable logging:

operation where logs on steep

slopes are removed with the use of cables above the ground.

Clearfelling:

the most intense harvesting

technique where virtually all trees are removed at one time. Often associated

with plantation harvesting or land clearing for agriculture. As a forest

management technique it is applied in particular forest types (e.g. karri)

but habitat and seed trees are left. When regrown, forests are even aged.

Codes of practice:

State regulations which control

where and the way logging is conducted.

Compartment:

series of logging coupes.

Coupe:

smallest forest management area of varying

size, shape and orientation from which logs for sawmilling are harvested. Coupes

are regenerated

after logging.

Formply:

type of plywood used for moulding

concrete.

Fine papers:

writing, printing and cover papers

with high quality characteristics.

Flitch:

a large piece of sawn log intended for

further cutting.

Gross domestic product:

is equivalent to gross

national expenditure plus export of goods and services less imports of goods

and services. It measures the output of economic activity.

Integrated harvesting:

harvesting both sawlogs

and pulpwood in a single operation. Can mean the removal of 90% of the canopy

in a logging coupe in forest types that require full sun for regeneration. Seed

trees, habitat trees and saplings remain.

Management plan:

objectivities and strategies, laid

down by Forest Services, for the long term multiple use of State forests.

Medium density fibreboard:

a kind of particleboard

made by gluing and compressing small wood particles together.

Mouldings:

architraves and door frames; usually

made from tropical timbers because of their easy application.

Plywood:

wood panel formed by gluing and compressing

thin sheets of veneer.

Pulp:

material consisting of separate fibres used to

make paper.

Pulpwood:

Wood considered unsuitable for sawmilling

and used for the production of woodchips, pulp, paper and wood panels.

Reconstituted wood products:

wood products made by

compressing particles or pieces of wood together.

Recovery rate:

the proportion of timber recovered

from a log for a particular purpose e.g. for sawn timber.

Royalties:

fees paid for harvested timber to the

Crown or private landowner.

Sawlogs:

logs which are processed into sawn timber,

veneer, poles and sleepers. The residue may be processed into woodchips or

pulpwood.

Sawmill residues:

are what is left after sawn timber

has been cut from a log including roundbacks, shavings and sawdust.

Sawn timber:

solid timber sawn into particular

dimensions, to be used for construction or furniture.

Seasoned timber:

solid timber which has been dried

in a kiln or naturally.

Selective harvesting:

is where small groups or

single mature trees are removed, together with some thinning of the forest

stand to encourage regeneration and maintain an uneven aged stand.

Thinning:

the removal of trees from a stand

to increase the growth rates of the remaining trees.

Value adding:

processing of the raw material

e.g. converting woodchips into paper is value adding.

Veneer:

a thin layer or sheet of wood material

either peeled or sliced from a length of log.

Woodchipping:

production of small pieces of wood

from pulpwood - the first stage of processing pulpwood into paper and

fibreboard.

Woodchips:

small pieces of pulpwood cut into

particular dimensions for different purposes including pulp and paper

manufacture and panel production.