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§ 45-0105. Definitions.    As  used  or  referred  to  in this article unless a different meaning  clearly appears from the context:    1. The term  "trust"  shall  mean  the  state  nature  and  historical  preserve trust continued by section 45-0107 of this article.    2.  The  term  "trustee"  shall mean the commissioner of environmental  conservation.    3. The term "real property" shall mean  lands  and  waters,  including  improvements  thereon, structures, and hereditaments, title to which may  be in fee simple absolute or any  lesser  interest,  including  but  not  limited  to,  easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses and every  estate, interest or right, legal or equitable.    4. The term "preserve" shall mean  the  state  nature  and  historical  preserve,  as  referred  to  in  section  4  of article XIV of the State  Constitution.    5. The term "lands of ecological significance" shall mean  state-owned  lands  and  waters that harbor plants, animals or ecological communities  that are rare in New York state or exemplary occurrences of more  common  ecological  communities.  For  the  purposes  of  this article, the term  "exemplary   occurrences   of   an   ecological   community"   means   a  representative,  high  quality  example  of a given ecological community  type, characterized by a distinctive assemblage of interacting plant and  animal populations, including old-growth forests.    6. The term "old-growth forest" shall mean a parcel of  at  least  ten  acres  which  includes  all  of  the  following:  an  abundance  of late  successional tree species, at least one hundred eighty  to  two  hundred  years  of  age  in  a contiguous forested landscape that has evolved and  reproduced itself naturally, with the capacity  for  self  perpetuation,  arranged  in a stratified forest structure consisting of multiple growth  layers throughout the canopy and forest  floor,  featuring  canopy  gaps  formed   by  natural  disturbances  creating  an  uneven  canopy  and  a  conspicuous absence of multiple stemmed trees and  coppices.  Typically,  old-growth  forest  sites  also are characterized by an irregular forest  floor containing an abundance of coarse woody materials which are  often  covered  by  mosses and lichens, show limited signs of human disturbance  since European settlement, have  distinct  soil  horizons  that  include  definite  organic,  mineral,  alluvial  accumulation, and unconsolidated  layers, and have an understory that displays well developed and  diverse  surface herbaceous layers.

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Statutes > New-york > Env > Article-45 > 45-0105

§ 45-0105. Definitions.    As  used  or  referred  to  in this article unless a different meaning  clearly appears from the context:    1. The term  "trust"  shall  mean  the  state  nature  and  historical  preserve trust continued by section 45-0107 of this article.    2.  The  term  "trustee"  shall mean the commissioner of environmental  conservation.    3. The term "real property" shall mean  lands  and  waters,  including  improvements  thereon, structures, and hereditaments, title to which may  be in fee simple absolute or any  lesser  interest,  including  but  not  limited  to,  easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses and every  estate, interest or right, legal or equitable.    4. The term "preserve" shall mean  the  state  nature  and  historical  preserve,  as  referred  to  in  section  4  of article XIV of the State  Constitution.    5. The term "lands of ecological significance" shall mean  state-owned  lands  and  waters that harbor plants, animals or ecological communities  that are rare in New York state or exemplary occurrences of more  common  ecological  communities.  For  the  purposes  of  this article, the term  "exemplary   occurrences   of   an   ecological   community"   means   a  representative,  high  quality  example  of a given ecological community  type, characterized by a distinctive assemblage of interacting plant and  animal populations, including old-growth forests.    6. The term "old-growth forest" shall mean a parcel of  at  least  ten  acres  which  includes  all  of  the  following:  an  abundance  of late  successional tree species, at least one hundred eighty  to  two  hundred  years  of  age  in  a contiguous forested landscape that has evolved and  reproduced itself naturally, with the capacity  for  self  perpetuation,  arranged  in a stratified forest structure consisting of multiple growth  layers throughout the canopy and forest  floor,  featuring  canopy  gaps  formed   by  natural  disturbances  creating  an  uneven  canopy  and  a  conspicuous absence of multiple stemmed trees and  coppices.  Typically,  old-growth  forest  sites  also are characterized by an irregular forest  floor containing an abundance of coarse woody materials which are  often  covered  by  mosses and lichens, show limited signs of human disturbance  since European settlement, have  distinct  soil  horizons  that  include  definite  organic,  mineral,  alluvial  accumulation, and unconsolidated  layers, and have an understory that displays well developed and  diverse  surface herbaceous layers.

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Statutes > New-york > Env > Article-45 > 45-0105

§ 45-0105. Definitions.    As  used  or  referred  to  in this article unless a different meaning  clearly appears from the context:    1. The term  "trust"  shall  mean  the  state  nature  and  historical  preserve trust continued by section 45-0107 of this article.    2.  The  term  "trustee"  shall mean the commissioner of environmental  conservation.    3. The term "real property" shall mean  lands  and  waters,  including  improvements  thereon, structures, and hereditaments, title to which may  be in fee simple absolute or any  lesser  interest,  including  but  not  limited  to,  easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses and every  estate, interest or right, legal or equitable.    4. The term "preserve" shall mean  the  state  nature  and  historical  preserve,  as  referred  to  in  section  4  of article XIV of the State  Constitution.    5. The term "lands of ecological significance" shall mean  state-owned  lands  and  waters that harbor plants, animals or ecological communities  that are rare in New York state or exemplary occurrences of more  common  ecological  communities.  For  the  purposes  of  this article, the term  "exemplary   occurrences   of   an   ecological   community"   means   a  representative,  high  quality  example  of a given ecological community  type, characterized by a distinctive assemblage of interacting plant and  animal populations, including old-growth forests.    6. The term "old-growth forest" shall mean a parcel of  at  least  ten  acres  which  includes  all  of  the  following:  an  abundance  of late  successional tree species, at least one hundred eighty  to  two  hundred  years  of  age  in  a contiguous forested landscape that has evolved and  reproduced itself naturally, with the capacity  for  self  perpetuation,  arranged  in a stratified forest structure consisting of multiple growth  layers throughout the canopy and forest  floor,  featuring  canopy  gaps  formed   by  natural  disturbances  creating  an  uneven  canopy  and  a  conspicuous absence of multiple stemmed trees and  coppices.  Typically,  old-growth  forest  sites  also are characterized by an irregular forest  floor containing an abundance of coarse woody materials which are  often  covered  by  mosses and lichens, show limited signs of human disturbance  since European settlement, have  distinct  soil  horizons  that  include  definite  organic,  mineral,  alluvial  accumulation, and unconsolidated  layers, and have an understory that displays well developed and  diverse  surface herbaceous layers.