California Public Resources Code

§ 4631

PRC § 4631Div. 4 · Part 2 · Ch. 9 · Art. 1

Statute text

It is hereby declared to be in the interest of the welfare of the people of this state and their industries and other activities involving the use of wood, lumber, poles, piling, and other forest products, that desirable cutover forest lands, including those having young and old timber growth, be made fully productive and that the holding and reforestation of such lands is a necessary measure predicated on waning supplies of original old growth timber. It is further declared to be the policy of the state to acquire by purchase, exchange, lease, or grant all of the following:

(a)Such cutover lands, the reforestation of which is not assured under private ownership, to reforest such lands during periods of unemployment and at other times.

(b)Liquidating forest lands primarily suitable for timber production which may be acquired under precutting agreements.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.