multiple-use forestry

any practice of forestry fulfilling two or more objectives of management —note 1. multiple uses may be integrated at one site or segregated from each other —note 2. the Multiple-Use Sustained Yield Act of 1960 identified the following multiple uses: timber, range, watershed, wildlife and fish, and outdoor recreation —synonym multiple-purpose forestry, multiple-resource forestry —see national forest This definition last updated 07/20/2008