Code of Federal Regulations Title 43. Public Lands:  Interior § 43.5500.0–5 Definitions

(a) Bureau means the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.

(b) Director means the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.

(c) Authorized Officer means an employee of the Bureau of Land Management, to whom has been delegated the authority to take action.

(d) O. and C. Lands means the Revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands and other lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management under the provisions of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874).

(e) Public Lands means any land and interest in land owned by the United States within the several States and administered by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management, including O. and C. Lands, without regard to how the United States acquired ownership, except:

(f) Timber means standing trees, downed trees or logs which are capable of being measured in board feet.

(g) Other vegetative resources means all vegetative material which cannot be measured in units of board feet of timber.