PD 705

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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. _____: REVISING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 389, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FORESTRY REFORM CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

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705

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PD 705 title?

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Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines

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PD 705, when?

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May 19, 1975

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is the mass of lands of the public domain which has not been the subject of the present system of classification for the determination of which lands are needed for forest purposes and which are not.

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Public forest

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refer to those lands of the public domain which have been the subject of the present system of classification and determined to be needed for forest purposes.

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Permanent forest or forest reserves

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refer to those lands of the public domain which have been the subject of the present system of classification and declared as not needed for forest purposes.

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Alienable and disposable lands

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include the public forest, the permanent forest or forest reserves, and forest reservations.

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Forest lands

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refers to that portion of the public domain which has been set aside, in view of the suitability of its topography and vegetation, for the raising of livestock.

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Grazing land

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refer to those lands of the public domain which have been classified as such by the Secretary of Natural Resources in accordance with prescribed and approved criteria, guidelines and procedure.

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Mineral lands

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refer to forest lands which have been reserved by the President of the Philippines for any specific purpose or purposes.

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Forest reservations

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refers to a forest land reservation essentially of primitive or wilderness character which has been withdrawn from settlement or occupancy and set aside as such exclusively to preserve the scenery, the natural and historic objects and the wild animals or plants therein, and to provide enjoyment of these features in such a manner as will leave them unimpaired for future generations.

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National park

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refers to a forest land designated for the protection of game animals, birds and fish and closed to hunting and fishing in order that the excess population may flow and restock surrounding areas.

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Game refuge or bird sanctuary

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refers to any off-shore area inhabited by rare and unique species of marine flora and fauna.

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Marine parks

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refers to any public shore area delimited for outdoor recreation, sports fishing, water skiing and related healthful activities.

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Seashore park

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is a forest land reservation established to protect or improve the conditions of the water yield thereof or reduce sedimentation.

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Watershed reservation

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is a land area drained by a stream or fixed body of water and its tributaries having a common outlet for surface run-off.

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Watershed

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is a drainage area of a river system supporting existing and proposed hydro-electric power and irrigation works needing immediate rehabilitation as it is being subjected to a fast denudation causing accelerated erosion and destructive floods. It is closed from logging until it is fully rehabilitated.

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Critical watershed

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is a term applied to the type of forest occurring on tidal flat along the sea coast, extending along streams where the water is brackish.

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Mangrove

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is a portion of the forest land, whether occupied or not, which is subjected to shifting and/or permanent slash-and-burn cultivation having little or no provision to prevent soil erosion.

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Kaingin

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means timber, pulpwood, firewood, bark, tree top, resin, gum, wood, oil, honey, beeswax, nipa, rattan, or other forest growth such as grass, shrub, and flowering plant, the associated water, fish, game, scenic, historical, recreational and geologic resources in forest lands.

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Forest product

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is a forest dominated by trees of the dipterocarp species, such as red lauan, tengile, tiaong, white lauan, almon, bagtikan and mayapis of the Philippine mahogany group, apitong and the yakals.

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Dipterocarp forest

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is a forest composed of the Benguet Pine in the Mountain Provinces or the Mindoro pine in Mindoro and Zambales provinces.

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Pine forest

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is any tract of forest land purposely and extensively planted to timber crops primarily to supply the raw material requirements of existing or proposed processing plants and related industries.

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Industrial tree plantation

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refers to any tract of forest land purposely and extensively planted to trees of economic value for their fruits, flowers, leaves, barks, or extractives, but not for the wood thereof.

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Tree farm

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is the harmonized utilization of the numerous beneficial uses of the land, soil, water, wildlife, recreation value, grass and timber of forest lands.

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Multiple-use

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means the systematic removal of the mature, over-mature and defective trees in such manner as to leave adequate number and volume of healthy residual trees of the desired species necessary to assure a future crop of timber, and forest cover for the protection and conservation of soil and water.

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Selective logging

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is partial clearcutting with seed trees left to regenerate the area.

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Seed tree system

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is a sound or slightly injured tree of the commercial species left after logging.

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Healthy residual

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implies continuous or periodic production of forest products in a working unit with the aid of achieving at the earliest practicable time an approximate balance between growth and harvest or use. This is generally applied to the commercial timber resources and is also applicable to the water, grass, wildlife, and other renewable resources of the forest.

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Sustained-yield management

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is any mechanical set-up, machine or combination of machine used for the processing of logs and other forest raw materials into lumbe

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Processing plant

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is a privilege granted by the State to a person to occupy and possess, in consideration of a specified rental, any forest land of the public domain in order to undertake any authorized activity therein.

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Lease

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is a privilege granted by the State to a person to utilize forest resources as in any forest land, without any right of occupation and possession over the same, to the exclusion of others, or establish and operate a wood-processing plant, or conduct any activity involving the utilization of any forest resources.

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License

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is a privilege granted by the State to a person to utilize forest resources within any forest land with the right of possession and occupation thereof to the exclusion of others, except the government, but with the corresponding obligation to develop, protect and rehabilitate the same in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in said agreement.

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License agreement

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is a short-term privilege or authority granted by the State to a person to utilize any limited forest resources or undertake a limited activity with any forest land without any right of occupation and possession therein.

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Permit

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is the volume of materials, whether of wood or other forest products, that is authorized to be cut regularly from the forest.

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Annual allowable cut

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is the number of years between major harvests in the same working unit and/or region, within a rotation.

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Cutting cycle

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means the ecological community considered together with non-living factors and its environment as a unit.

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Ecosystem

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is the establishment, development reproduction and care of forest trees.

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Silviculture

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is the organization of a business or industry using scientific business management principles and simplified procedures to obtain greater efficiency of operation.

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Rationalization

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means any official or employee of the Bureau who, by the nature of his appointment or the function of the position to which he is appointed, is delegated by law or by competent authority to execute, implement or enforce the provisions of this Code, other related laws, as well as their implementing regulations.

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Forest officer

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is a group of endemic tribe living primitively as a distinct portion of a people from a common ancestor.

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Primitive tribe

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means or refers to titled rights of ownership under existing laws, and in the case of primitive tribes, to rights of possession existing at the time a license is granted under this Code, which possession may include places of abode and worship, burial grounds, and old clearings, but excludes production forest inclusive of logged-over areas, commercial forests and established plantations of forest trees and trees of economic value.

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Private right