California Public Resources Code

§ 4789.3

PRC § 4789.3Div. 4 · Part 2 · Ch. 12

Statute text

(a)Under policy guidance from the board and in consultation with the Secretary of the Resources Agency, the director shall prepare and submit to the board and the Secretary of the Resources Agency, a preliminary forest and rangeland resource assessment and analysis not later than July 1, 1979, and shall present a full and updated assessment by January 1, 1987, and by January 1 of each fifth year thereafter. The assessment and analysis shall recognize distinct differences in ownership and management of forest and rangeland resources in California between the various public and the various private owners and shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1)An assessment and analysis of the supply and availability of the various present and potential forest and rangeland resources of the state, including limits to those supplies imposed by natural site conditions, such as slope stability and erosion hazard, or by governmental restriction, such as special zoning. Among resource potentials to be evaluated are opportunities to accomplish any of the following:

(A)Improve and rehabilitate the understocked timberland in California and to more fully utilize the productive potential for growing and harvesting timber.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 352, Sec. 1.