California Fish and Game Code

§ 2086

FGC § 2086 Effective Jan 1, 2024Div. 3 · Ch. 1.5 · Art. 3.5

Statute text

(a)The department, in cooperation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, agricultural commissioners, extension agents, farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural experts, shall adopt regulations that authorize locally designed voluntary programs for routine and ongoing agricultural activities on farms or ranches that encourage habitat for candidate, threatened, and endangered species, and wildlife generally. Agricultural commissioners, extension agents, farmers, ranchers, or other agricultural experts, in cooperation with conservation groups, may propose those programs to the department.

(b)Programs authorized under subdivision (a) shall do all of the following:

(1)Include management practices that will, to the maximum extent practicable, avoid and minimize take of candidate, endangered, and threatened species, while encouraging the enhancement of habitat.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 132, Sec. 42. (AB 1760) Effective January 1, 2024.