Terms beginning with P
- Planned burn
The planned application of fire to vegetation on land selected in advance of such application for forest management applications such as weed suppression, fire hazard reduction, habitat management and regeneration.
- Plant and animal communities
An assemblage of native plant and animal species that inhabits a particular area in nature. (abridged Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 definition)
- Plantations
Intensively managed stands of trees of either native or exotic species, created by the regular placement of seedlings or seed. (NFPS)
- Private forest
Private forests are on private property. They are owned and managed by individuals or companies.
- Prospecting
Prospecting is a small scale search more minerals, such as gold. It is often a recreational activity, conducted with hand held metal detectors.
- Public forest
Public forests are forests managed by the government on behalf of the people. These forests include State forests, national parks and many other types of reserves. (any forest on Crown land for which management responsibility has been delegated to government agencies, local governments or other instrumentalities. - NFPS)
- Pulp
Material made up of separate fibres that is used to make paper.
- Pulpwood
Pulpwood is logs not of suitable quality or size for sawing that instead are processed into woodchips, mainly for the production of paper.
- Parlour
- See Milking Parlour.
- Pesticides
Chemicals used to control or destroy crop pests. They include insecticides, herbicides (aimed at weeds), molluscicides (aimed at slugs and snails), and fungicides (aimed at fungi).
- Poaching
Damage caused to grassland when animals churn up the fields during wet weather.
- Porker
A finished pig sold for pork. The youngest grade of adult pigmeat.
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