Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-16-2: Definitions

As used in the Oklahoma Forestry Code:

1. "Control line" means a constructed or natural barrier and

treated fire edge used to control a fire;

2. "Director" means the Director of Forestry of the Oklahoma

Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry;

3. "Division" means the Forestry Division of the Oklahoma

Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry;

4. "Established property line" means any boundary line which

has been:

a. recognized by adjoining land owners as a boundary and

uncontested for at least fifteen (15) years including,

but not limited to, fence lines, roads, and natural

features,

b. established by a registered land surveyor, or

c. uncontested for at least fifteen (15) years;

5. "Fire line" means the actively burning or burned perimeter

of an uncontrolled wildfire of any size that necessitates the use of

direct or indirect tactical suppression actions to control the

wildfire;

6. "Forest rangers" means all employees of the Forestry

Division who have responsibilities in forest and natural resource

protection, including laborers, mechanics, and other employees who

assist in forest and natural resource protection;

7. "Forest" means a tract of land that is at least ten percent

(10%) stocked by trees of any size, whether of commercial or

noncommercial species, or formerly having tree cover and not

currently developed for non-forest use, including woodlands,

woodlots, windbreaks, and shelterbelts;

8. "Hazardous duty" means actions performed on or near the fire

line required to fight and control wildfires in order to protect

lives, property, forests, and natural resources as well as functions

associated with wildland hazardous fuels reduction work to mitigate

and reduce wildfire threat to lives, property, forests, and natural

resources;

9. "Logging or timber harvesting operations" means the cutting

or harvesting of and removal of timber from a site, leaving the root

mass intact;

10. "Owner" means the possessor of a fee interest, a tenant,

lessee, occupant, or other person in lawful control of land;

11. "Prescribed burning" means the controlled application of

fire by the owner or designated agent of croplands, rangelands, or

forestlands to naturally occurring vegetative fuel under specified

environmental conditions and following appropriate precautionary

measures intended to keep the fire confined to a predetermined area

and accomplish land management objectives;

12. "Timber" means live and dead trees and the profit in any

live and dead trees including, but not limited to, bark, foliage,

wood, vines, firewood, crossties, and shrubbery;

13. "Timber owner" means any person who owns the right to cut

or harvest timber at the time the timber is to be cut or harvested,

or who legally owns the severed timber;

14. "Wildfires" means any fire which is not controlled on

forests, grasslands, fields, or croplands;

15. "Wildland" means any undeveloped land regardless of

vegetative plant cover including forest, prairie, marsh, and swamp;

and

16. "Wildland firefighter" means any forest ranger employed by

the Forestry Division whose duty to fight wildfires includes

incident management, fire suppression, and hazardous wildland fuel

mitigation.