Glossary & Abbreviations

Glossary of Terms & Abbreviations used in Reports:

a annum (= year)
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ADt/a air dry tonnes per annum
bdmt bone dry metric tonne (1000 kg of dry wood)
bdu bone dry unit (2400 lbs or 1089 kg of dry wood)
C&F cost including freight
cd centre diameter
CF clearfelling
CFA Country Fire Authority
CHH Carter Holt Harvey Ltd
CIF cost, insurance and freight
dbh diameter over bark at breast height (1.3 m)
DCF discounted cash flow
DPIE (Commonwealth) Department of Primary Industry and Energy
FFORNE Farm Forestry North East/North Central
FOB free on board ship
ha hectare (10,000 m2)
IRR internal rate of return (%)
JAS Japanese Agricultural Standard (of measure)
km kilometre
LVL laminated veneer lumber
m metre
m2 square metre
m3 cubic metre
m3/a cubic metres per annum
m3/ha cubic metre per hectare
m3/ha.a cubic metres per hectare per annum
mai mean annual increment
MDF medium density fibreboard
MJ megajoule
MTH mean top height (height of 100 largest dbh trees/ha)
MWh/t Megawatt hours/tonne
NE North East
NFI National Forest Inventory
NPI National Plantation Inventory
NSW New South Wales
OSB oriented strand board
PISA Department of Primary Industry South Australia
rwe roundwood equivalent
sed small end diameter
SFNSW State Forests of NSW
sph stems per hectare
stumpage (royalty) The price paid per m3 and/or per tonne for a standing tree. The value is normally determined, however, after the tree has been felled and crosscut into various log grades.
T1 first thinning
T2 second thinning
tonne 1 tonne = 1000 kg
tonne/a tonnes per annum
ub underbark
VPC Victorian Plantations Corporation
VPX Victorian Power Exchange
vs versus
WBM Wangaratta/Benalla/Myrtleford