CONTROL OF FOREST DEVASTATION 469 



"Forest devastation" means the harvesting of a forest crop otherwise than in 

 comphance with standards established by regional and local regulations made 

 under section 3 of this Act. 



"Operator" means any person who is engaged in the business of harvesting, 

 or causing to be harvested, for himself, one or more forest crops on commercial 

 forest land. 



"Raw forest product" means the wood of felled forest trees, prepared for 

 removal from the place of felling to be sold, used, or consumed, such as logs, 

 poles, piles, round mine timbers, round or split posts, split staves, pulp wood, 

 fuel wood, other cordwood, hewn ties, hewn timbers, bolts, and the like. 



"Standard log scale" means such uniform scale for the measurement in board 

 feet of the volume of all raw forest products as the Forester, with the approval 

 of the Secretary, shall by regulations prescribe ; and such regulations may 

 provide for the conversion of measurements in any log scale, or in any cord 

 measure, or in any other measure of raw forest products, into their equivalent 

 in units of the standard log scale. 



"Taxable product" means a raw forest product produced from trees felled on 

 commercial forest lands by any operator. 



"Standard product" means a taxable product produced from such part of a 

 forest crop as is harvested in compliance with standards established and defined 

 by regional and local, regulations under section 3 of this Act. 



"Product below standard" means a taxable product produced from such part 

 of a forest crop as is harvested otherwise than in compliance with standards 

 established under section 3 of this Act. 



"Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture. 



"Forester" means the Forester of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



"Regional forester" means any officer or agent of the United States designated 

 by the Secretary to perform the duties imposed on regional foresters by this Act. 



"Person" means and includes a natural person, partnership, association, com- 

 pany, or corporation, and any officer, receiver, or employee of any of them, 

 and any member of a partnership who as such officer, receiver, employee, or 

 member is under a duty imposed by this Act or by any regulations under 

 this Act. 



FOREST REGIONS 



Sec. 3. (a) That the Secretary shall divide, and may from time to time 

 redivide, the United States into forest regions, which shall be delimited as he 

 shall deem best in view of forest and economic conditions, in order that the 

 standards established and defined by regional and local regulations under section 

 3 of this Act may be adapted to and applied in accord with local forest and 

 economic conditions. The Secretary may conform the national forest districts 

 to said forest regions. 



ADMINISTRATION 



(b) That the Secretary shall establish in the forest regions provided for in 

 subsection (a) of this section, and in the District of Columbia, such service as 

 he shall deem necessary for the administration of this Act ; and, upon due 

 request from the proper authorities of States with which the Secretary is 

 co-operating under section 12 hereof, he may deputize State forest officials to 

 assist in the administration of this Act. 



HARVESTING REGULATIONS 



Sec. 3. That in order that this Act may be applied locally in accord with 

 regional and local forest and economic conditions — 



(a) The Secretary shall make, and may from time to time amend, regulations 

 establishing and defining in general terms as to each forest region such 



