Oak woodlands definition

Oak woodlands means those stands of Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana) or Oregon white oak/conifer associations where the crown cover of the Oregon white oak component of the stand is greater than or equal to twenty-five percent (25%). In degraded habitat, the Oregon white oak component of the stand may be less than twenty-five percent (25%), or the canopy coverage may be less than fifty percent (50%).
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Oak woodlands means a given unit of land, with one or more stands of live trees, where a plurality of the live trees in the stands are native oaks and/or the project site contains 10 percent or more oak canopy cover for parcels less than one acre, or 1 percent or more oak canopy cover for parcels one acre or greater.
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Oak woodlands means an oak stand with a greater than 10 percent canopy cover or that may have historically supported greater than 10 percent canopy cover.
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Examples of Oak woodlands in a sentence

  • Oak woodlands are a declining resource in the southern California area.


More Definitions of Oak woodlands

Oak woodlands means a given unit of land, with one or more groupings of live trees, where the dominant species (i.e. the plurality) within the groupings is native oaks (species quercus).
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Oak woodlands means an oak stand with a greater than ten percent canopy cover or that may have historically supported greater than ten percent canopy cover (California Fish and Game Code Section 1361).
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Oak woodlands means a given unit of land, with one or more groupings of live trees, where the dominant species (i.e. a plurality) of the live trees within the groupings are native oaks (genus quercus). "Stand" means a group or groupings of trees.
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Related to Oak woodlands

  • Woodland means a group of indigenous trees which are not a natural forest, but whose crowns cover more than five per cent of the area bounded by the trees forming the perimeter of the group.

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