Environment
Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973: working forest management plans: nonindustrial timber management plans
Expands eligibility for streamlined long-term timber management plans and removes a watershed-boundary limit for working forest plans.
More nonindustrial timberland owners can use these approved-plan pathways for timber harvesting. The law also allows working forest management plans to cover harvest areas across more than one hydrological area.
What the law does
- Raises the maximum acreage for a nonindustrial tree farmer and a nonindustrial timber management plan from 2,500 to less than 4,000 acres.
- Raises the maximum acreage for a working forest landowner and a working forest management plan from 10,000 to less than 15,000 acres.
- Removes the requirement that a working forest management plan's harvest area stay within one hydrological area.
- Applies working forest management plan provisions in the Southern Subdistrict of the Coast Forest District.
Who it affects
- Nonindustrial tree farmers who are not primarily forest-products manufacturers.
- Working forest landowners who are not primarily forest-products manufacturers.
- Timberland owners in the Southern Subdistrict of the Coast Forest District.