2022 Edition

national industry 115310

Support Activities for Forestry

Overview

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing particular support activities related to timber production, wood technology, forestry economics and marketing, and forest protection. These establishments may provide support activities for forestry, such as estimating timber, forest firefighting, forest pest control, treating burned forests from the air for reforestation or on an emergency basis, and consulting on wood attributes and reforestation.

The immediate parent of national industry 115310 is international industry 11531: Support Activities for Forestry

2022 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Public administration and conservation of forest lands--are classified in Industry 924120, Administration of Conservation Programs;
  • Growing trees for reforestation--are classified in Industry 113210, Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products; and
  • Individual activities as part of a restoration project--are classified according to the primary activity.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 115310 - Aerial forest firefighting
  2. 115310 - Aerial forest mulching or seeding
  3. 115310 - Aerial wildland firefighting
  4. 115310 - Cruising timber
  5. 115310 - Estimating timber
  6. 115310 - Fire prevention, forest
  7. 115310 - Firefighting, forest
  8. 115310 - Forest management plans preparation
  9. 115310 - Forest thinning
  10. 115310 - Forestry services
  11. 115310 - Pest control services, forestry
  12. 115310 - Reforestation (except forest nurseries)
  13. 115310 - Timber valuation

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 115310
2007 115310
2012 115310
2017 115310
2022 115310

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 0851 - Forestry Services

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 115310, Support Activities for Forestry:

  1. agriculture forestry fishing and hunting
  2. aviation aerial application seeding herding or scintillometer surveying flying crew
  3. aviation aerial firefighting flying crew
  4. consultant forestry
  5. farm tree planting reforestation
  6. fire patrol forest
  7. forest engineer
  8. forest or wildland firefighting volunteer
  9. forestry service
  10. machinery operation for other
  11. support activity for agriculture and forestry
  12. support activity for forestry
  13. surveyor timber cruiser oil or gas geologist or scout
  14. tree planting reforestation

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