31 Tex. Admin. Code § 59.63 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Low Impact Public
Use--Development or use of a site which results in minimal long-term
irreversible adverse impact, or is within acceptable limits of
change.
(2) Management plan--A
document that sets forth the framework for resource stewardship, conservation,
public use, facility maintenance, operations and public safety for a specific
unit (or subunit) of lands within the state park system.
(3) Natural biodiversity--The complement of
indigenous plants and animals that is expected to occur on an ecological site
type, in natural communities or over a landscape.
(4) Natural communities--An assemblage of
organisms indigenous to an area that is characterized by a distinct combination
of species occupying habitats or ecological zones and interacting with one
another, their environment, and natural processes. An array of plants and
animals expected for any given ecological site type.
(5) Public Hunting--Hunting by the public of
wildlife, including feral and exotic species on departmental controlled lands
as authorized by the Commission under the Public Lands Proclamation.
(6) Public Use--Resource-oriented recreation
or other site-appropriate uses permitted under Subchapter F of this chapter
(relating to State Park Operational Rules.
(7) Resource Oriented
Recreation--Recreational activities the enjoyment of which is dependent upon or
enhanced by a natural resource, consistent with applicable rules and policies
of the department.
(8) Sound
Biological Management--The use of the best science-based information available
to the department in setting living resources management goals and objectives
and in determining the techniques to be used in achieving those goals,
including best management practices determined by the Parks and Wildlife
Commission.
(9) Sustainability--The
capability of natural systems to maintain themselves over time as defined by
site-specific, measurable management goals and objectives.
(10) Wilderness-type Experience--Recreational
activities, in a natural setting, intended to provide the user with an
unimpaired experience of open space, solitude, and few man-made
intrusions.
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