1. the technical (in contrast to the administrative and business) aspects of controlling stocking, harvests, growth, and yields to meet management objectives including sustained yield 2. the control of private forest management by exercise of public authority 3. a legal enactment or ordinance affecting forests —see operations research; kinds of forest regulation include the following:

—area regulation an indirect method of controlling (and roughly determining) the amount of forest produce to be harvested, annually or periodically, on the basis of stocked area —synonym area control

—area/volume regulation an indirect method of controlling annual or periodic harvest based on both growing stock and stocked area —synonym area/volume control

—basal area regulation a method of controlling and determining the amount of timber to be cut annually or periodically from a forest according to its basal area relative to that of the growing stock and its increment —synonym basal area control

—volume regulation a direct method of controlling and determining the amount of timber to be cut annually or periodically by calculations based on growing stock volume and increment, disregarding area —synonym volume control This definition last updated 12/09/2008