California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 7.7 - Working Forest Management Plan

• Section 4597.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The nonindustrial timber management plan established pursuant to Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 4593) has been successful...
• Section 4597.1.
  Notwithstanding Section 4521, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern construction of this article:(a) “Long-term sustained yield” means the average annual growth sustainable by...
• Section 4597.2.
  A working forest management plan may be submitted to the department in writing by a person who intends to become a working forest landowner with...
• Section 4597.3.
  The board shall adopt regulations regarding the notice of receipt of the proposed working forest management plan. The notice shall be given within two working...
• Section 4597.4.
  The department shall provide notice of the filing of working forest management plans, the proposed plans, and working forest harvest notices on its Internet Web...
• Section 4597.5.
  Upon receipt of the proposed working forest management plan, the department shall place the proposed plan, or a true copy of the proposed plan, in...
• Section 4597.6.
  (a) The department shall provide a time period for public comment, starting from the date of the receipt of a working forest management plan, as follows:(1) Ninety...
• Section 4597.7.
  The working forest landowner may submit a proposed amendment to the approved plan and shall not take any action that substantially deviates, as defined by...
• Section 4597.8.
  The working forest landowner may take actions that do not substantially deviate from the approved plan without the submission of an amendment, but those actions...
• Section 4597.9.
  (a) Upon a change of ownership of the land described in the working forest management plan, the transferring landowner shall provide the acquiring landowner with written...
• Section 4597.10.a.
  The working forest landowner may cancel the working forest management plan by submitting a written notice to the department. Once timber operations have commenced pursuant...
• Section 4597.11.
  The working forest landowner who owns, leases, or otherwise controls or operates on all or any portion of any timberland within the boundaries of an...
• Section 4597.12.
  (a) For an approved working forest management plan, the director shall convene a meeting with the interdisciplinary review team, as that term is used in subdivision...
• Section 4597.13.
  The registered professional forester who prepares the working forest management plan or prepares the notice of harvest, or any other registered professional forester who is...
• Section 4597.14.
  If the board finds that a registered professional forester has made any material misstatement in a working forest harvest notice, working forest management plan, or...
• Section 4597.15.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, if a registered professional forester certifies by written declaration, on behalf of the timber owner or operator, that...
• Section 4597.16.
  If the department determines that the objectives of uneven aged management and sustained yield are not being met by a working forest landowner, or there...
• Section 4597.17.
  If a landowner with a nonindustrial timber management plan or a working forest management plan with less than 2,500 acres expands his or her total...
• Section 4597.18.
  A participating landowner, in conjunction with the preparation of an application for a working forest management plan filed with the department, may also seek approval...
• Section 4597.19.
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a person with a working forest management plan or a nonindustrial timber management plan applies for state restoration grant funding...
• Section 4597.20.a.
  The board shall adopt the regulations needed to implement this article by January 1, 2016.(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 648, Sec. 1. (AB 904) Effective...
• Section 4597.21.
  This article does not affect the applicability of county rules adopted pursuant to Section 4516.5 nor any court decision made by a court of competent...
• Section 4597.22.
  This article does not apply to the Southern Subdistrict of the Coast Forest District, as described in Section 895.1 of Title 14 of the California...

Last modified: October 22, 2018