Washington Revised Code Title 79. Public Lands § 79.15.500. Contract harvesting--Definitions

(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of public lands.

(2) “Contract harvesting” means a timber operation occurring on state forestlands, in which the department contracts with a firm or individual to perform all the necessary harvesting work to process trees into logs sorted by department specifications. The department then sells the individual log sorts.

(3) “Department” means the department of natural resources.

(4) “Harvesting costs” are those expenses related to the production of log sorts from a stand of timber. These expenses typically involve road building, labor for felling, bucking, and yarding, as well as the transporting of sorted logs to the forest product purchasers.

(5) “Net proceeds” means gross proceeds from a contract harvesting sale less harvesting costs.

(6) “Silvicultural treatment” means any vegetative or other treatment applied to a managed forest to improve the conditions of the stand, and may include harvesting, thinning, prescribed burning, and pruning.