113210 Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) growing trees for reforestation and/or (2) gathering forest products, such as gums, barks, balsam needles, rhizomes, fibers, Spanish moss, ginseng, and truffles.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Gathering tea and maple sap are classified in U.S. Industry 111998, All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming.
• Processing maple syrup into other products are classified in U.S. Industry 311999, All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing.
• Operating timber tracts for the purpose of selling standing timber are classified in Industry 113110, Timber Tract Operations.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 113210

The Census index assigns these 24 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Aromatic wood gathering
• Balsam needles gathering
• Bark gathering
• Cherry gum, gathering
• Chestnut gum, gathering
• Forest nurseries for reforestation, growing trees
• Gathering of forest products (e.g., barks, gums, needles, seeds)
• Gathering, extracting, and selling tree seeds
• Ginseng gathering
• Gum (i.e., forest product) gathering
• Harvesting berries or nuts from native and non-cultivated plants
• Hemlock gum gathering
• Huckleberry greens, gathering of
• Moss gathering
• Nurseries for reforestation growing trees
• Pine gum extracting
• Spanish moss gathering
• Sphagnum moss gathering
• Spruce gum gathering
• Teaberries gathering
• Tree seed extracting
• Tree seed gathering
• Tree seed growing for reforestation
• Truffles gathering

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 113210

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 113210, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $20.5 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 0210, 0230), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 02100Silviculture and other forestry activitiesUK SIC
• 02300Gathering of wild growing non-wood productsUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.