Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 41 > Chapter 17 > Article 2 - Riparian Management

• forest land: means land stocked or having been stocked with forest trees of any size and not currently developed for nonforest use, regardless of whether presently available or accessible for commercial purposes, and includes any such land under state, municipal, or private ownership. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• high value resident fish: means resident fish populations that are used for recreational, personal use, commercial, or subsistence purposes. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• operations: means timber harvesting or activates associated with timber harvesting or forest development unless exempted under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• operator: means a person who is engaged in timber harvesting or activities associated with timber harvesting or forest development, or who contracts with others to conduct operations for that person, except a person who is engaged in an operation as an employee with wages or piecework as the sole compensation. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• ordinary high water mark: means the mark along the bank or shore up to which the presence and action of the tidal or nontidal water are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to leave a natural line impressed on the bank or shore and indicated by erosion, shelving, changes in soil characteristics, destruction of terrestrial vegetation, or other distinctive physical characteristics. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• other public land: means state land managed by state agencies other than the department, land owned by a municipality, and land owned by the University of Alaska. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• outer bend subject to erosion: means , in Region II, a stream bend that has a cutbank and is opposite a point bar on the inner bend. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• point bar: means , in Region II, a ridge or low mound of sediment, often sand or gravel, that has been deposited on the inside of a curve in a stream, where the water velocity is lower. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Region I: means all land in Southeast Alaska, plus all land that is south of the crest of the Chugach Mountains and Saint Elias Mountains and east of a line running from the crest of the Chugach Mountains to O'Malley Peak, then southerly to Gull Rock, then southwesterly to the eastern junction of Skilak Lake Road and the Sterling Highway, then southwesterly to the mouth of the Fox River, then southwesterly through Kachemak Bay to Mt. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Region II: means all land in the state south of the Nutzotin Mountains and Mentasta Mountains, south of the Alaska Range, and east of the Aleutian Range, except for the area within Region I and peninsular and island land south of Cape Kumliun. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Region III: means all land in the state outside of Regions I and II. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• riparian area: means
  (A) the areas subject to riparian protection standards in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• significant impairment of the productivity of the land and water: means an activity that may foreseeably result in prolonged or substantial damage to renewable resources or prolonged or substantial reduction of the continuing capability of the land or water to produce renewable resources at their natural or historic levels. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• state forest: means an area designated by the legislature and retained in state ownership in order to
  (A) provide a base for sustained yield management of renewable resources. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• terrace: means , in Region II, a change in elevation greater than 10 feet for a Type II-A water body or greater than 20 feet for a Type II-B water body, and that has a slope greater than 30 percent. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• terrace top break: means , in Region II, the point at which the terrace slope changes to the lower angle slope of the adjacent upland. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type I-A water body: means , in Region I, an anadromous water body that
  (A) is a stream or river of any size having an average gradient of eight percent or less, with banks held in place by vegetation, channels that are not incised, and a substrate composed of rubble, gravel, sand, or silt. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type I-B water body: means , in Region I, an anadromous water body that does not meet the definition of a Type I-A water body. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type I-C water body: means , in Region I, a water body that is not anadromous, that is a tributary to a Type I-A or Type I-B water body, and that has a gradient of 12 percent or less. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type I-D water body: means , in Region I, a water body that is not anadromous, that is tributary to a Type I-A or Type I-B water body, and that has a gradient greater than 12 percent. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type II-A water body: means , in Region II,
  (A) a nonglacial stream greater than 50 feet wide that has anadromous or high value resident fish and that has an unconfined and dynamic channel. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type II-B water body: means , in Region II, a glacial stream that has anadromous or high value resident fish and that is not a glacial Type II-C water body. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type II-C water body: means , in Region II, a water body that has anadromous or high value resident fish that
  (A) is a nonglacial water body greater than three feet wide and less than or equal to 50 feet wide at ordinary high water mark that has an unconfined and dynamic channel. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type II-D water body: means , in Region II, a nonglacial stream or a reach of the Kenai River, Kasilof River, or Lake Fork Crescent River that is less than or equal to three feet wide at ordinary high water mark that has anadromous or high value resident fish. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type III-A water body: means , in Region III, a
  (A) nonglacial high value resident fish water body greater than three feet in width at the ordinary high water mark. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type III-B water body: means , in Region III, a glacial high value resident fish water body or a glacial anadromous water body. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950
• Type III-C water body: means , in Region III, a nonglacial high value resident fish water body that is less than or equal to three feet in width at the ordinary high water mark and that does not contain anadromous fish. See Alaska Statutes 41.17.950