blind area

1. fire the ground or vegetation growing thereon that is not visible to a lookout and that either lies below the line of sight or is hidden by cloud, haze, or smoke —see seen area 2. logging that portion of a harvest area that is inaccessible to cable yarding due to horizontal alignment of the harvest area boundary or vertical alignment of the slope in relation to the yarding location or elevation This definition last updated 10/24/2008