Terms beginning with W

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Weaner Pellets

See Cake. Small or juvenile animal pellets are usually smaller in size with adjusted ingredients.

Wether

A castrated male sheep.

Wheatfeed

A byproduct of flour milling. It contains fragments of bran, seedcoat and some flour. Rather dusty but a useful animal food.

Water quality

Water quality refers to the amount of nutrients, particles and chemicals contained in the water.

Water yield

Water yield from a forest is the amount of water that comes from the forest into a water catchment.

Wilderness

Wilderness is an area, including the plants and animals, that has not been substantially changed from what it was like before European settlement. The area is big enough to be able to maintain itself in that state. Land that, together with its plant and animal communities, is in a state that has not been substantially modified by, and is remote from, the influences of European settlement or is capable of being restored to such a state; is of sufficient size to make its maintenance in such a state feasible; and is capable of providing opportunities of solitude and self-reliant recreation. (National Forest Policy Statement).

Woodland

A vegetation type dominated by woody vegetation having a mature or potential mature stand height exceeding 5 metres, with an overstorey canopy cover less than 20%.

Woodchips

Woodchips are small pieces of wood used for making paper and composite boards like medium density fibreboard (MDF) and particle board, as well as garden uses.

World Heritage Convention

The Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, agreed in Paris on 23 November 1972.

World Heritage

Sites of outstanding universal natural or cultural significancewhich are included on the World Heritage List.