Major Group 08: Forestry

This major group includes establishments primarily engaged in the operation of timber tracts, tree farms, forest nurseries, and related activities such as reforestation services and the gathering of gums, barks, balsam needles, maple sap, Spanish moss, and other forest products.

• Industry Group 081: Timber Tracts
  
  • 0811 Timber Tracts
    Establishments primarily engaged in the operation of timber tracts or tree farms for the purpose of selling standing timber. Establishments holding timber tracts as real property (not for sale of timber) are classified in Real Estate, Industry 6519; and logging establishments are classified in Manufacturing, Industry 2411.
    
    • Christmas tree growing
    • Timber tracts
    • Tree farms

• Industry Group 083: Forest Nurseries And Gathering Of Forest
  
  • 0831 Forest Nurseries And Gathering Of Forest Products
    Establishments primarily engaged in growing trees for purposes of reforestation or in gathering forest products. The concentration or distillation of these products, when carried on in the forest, is included in this industry.
    
    • Balsam needles, gathering of
    • Distillation of gums if carried on at the gum farm
    • Distillation of turpentine and rosin if carried on at the gum farm
    • Forest nurseries
    • Gathering of forest products: (e.g., gums, barks, seeds)
    • Ginseng, gathering of
    • Huckleberry greens, gathering of
    • Lac production
    • Maple sap, gathering of
    • Moss, gathering of
    • Pine gum, extraction of
    • Rubber plantations
    • Spanish moss, gathering of
    • Sphagnum moss, gathering of
    • Teaberries, gathering of
    • Tree seed gathering, extracting, and selling

• Industry Group 085: Forestry Services
  
  • 0851 Forestry Services
    Establishments primarily engaged in performing, on a contract or fee basis, services related to timber production, wood technology, forestry economics and marketing, and other forestry services, not elsewhere classified, such as cruising timber, firefighting, and reforestation.
    
    • Cruising timber
    • Estimating timber
    • Fire prevention, forest
    • Firefighting, forest
    • Forest management plans, preparation of
    • Forestry services
    • Pest control, forest
    • Reforestation
    • Timber valuation