California Public Resources Code

§ 4598

PRC § 4598 Effective Jun 20, 2014Div. 4 · Part 2 · Ch. 8 · Art. 7.8

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)In order to meet the goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code), it is necessary to increase the carbon sequestration potential of California’s timberlands and to decrease carbon emissions from wildland fires.

(b)Over one-half of the privately owned, commercial timberland in the state is owned by nonindustrial landowners. These lands will be increasingly important in the state’s efforts to meet the goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The owners of these lands often lack the forestry expertise, economic incentive, or capital needed to make investments to decrease present and future greenhouse gas emissions from their lands and the potential for wildland fires that release greenhouse gases.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 36, Sec. 11. (SB 862) Effective June 20, 2014.