TITLE 17: CONSERVATION
CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
SUBCHAPTER d: FORESTRY
PART 1585 WRONGFUL TREE CUTTING
SECTION 1585.10 DEFINITIONS


 

Section 1585.10  Definitions

 

        "Commercial Timber"  - means species of trees of a size which will be purchased by an available primary forest products market, such as for sawlogs, pulpwood, veneer, cooperage or forest products, which at the minimum will produce one stick of wood with a 4 inch diameter inside the bark at the small end and 8 feet long or greater.

 

        "Department" – means the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

 

        "Diameter at Breast Height" (DBH) – means the stem diameter, outside bark, at a point 4.5 feet above ground.

 

        "Doyle Log Rule" – is:

 

(

(D-4)2

)L=BF

4

 

        where:     D is diameter of the small end of a log in inches

 

              L is the log length in feet

 

              BF is Board Feet.