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Timber harvesting plans: exempt activities.

It became law on Oct 8, 2013.

CA AB 744 · Assembly Bill · 2013–2014

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Latest action
Oct 8, 2013

What it does

The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, including, the harvesting of trees, limited to those trees that eliminate the vertical continuity of vegetative fuels and the horizontal continuity of tree crowns, for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree…

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This bill passed and is now law.

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    Oct 8, 2013

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