California Fish and Game Code

§ 1850

FGC § 1850 Effective Jan 1, 2017Div. 2 · Ch. 9

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares that it would be beneficial to identify species and habitat conservation initiatives at a regional scale, including actions to address the impacts of climate change and other wildlife stressors, in order to guide voluntary investments in conservation, and compensatory mitigation for impacts to ecological resources, including impacts to threatened and endangered species, other sensitive species, natural communities, ecological processes, and wildlife corridors.

(b)The purpose of this chapter is to promote the voluntary conservation of natural resources, including biodiversity and ecological processes, and to enhance resiliency to climate change and other threats. In order to further this goal, it is the policy of the state to encourage voluntary mechanisms to conserve biological and other ecological resources and to identify conservation actions, including actions to promote resiliency to the impacts of climate change and other stressors to species and habitat.

(c)It is further the policy of the state to encourage voluntary mechanisms to identify and implement advance mitigation actions that do all of the following:

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 455, Sec. 2. (AB 2087) Effective January 1, 2017.