California Public Resources Code

§ 4561

PRC § 4561 Effective Jan 1, 2013Div. 4 · Part 2 · Ch. 8 · Art. 5

Statute text

It is the purpose of this section to set forth resource conservation standards for timber operations, and to ensure that a cover of trees of commercial species, sufficient to utilize adequately the suitable and available growing space, is maintained or established after timber operations. To that end, the following resource conservation standards define minimum acceptable stocking, and an area covered by a timber harvesting plan shall be classified as acceptably stocked if either of the following conditions exist within five years after completion of timber operations:

(a)The area contains an average point count of 300 per acre, except that in areas that the registered professional forester who prepares the timber harvesting plan has determined are site IV classification or lower, the minimum average point count shall be 150 per acre. Point count shall be computed as follows:

(1)A countable tree that is not more than four inches in diameter at breast height to count as one.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 162, Sec. 147. (SB 1171) Effective January 1, 2013.