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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in this chapter:
(a) “Board” means the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection.
(b) “Resources Planning Act” means the Forest and Rangelands Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. Secs. 1601to1610, incl.).
(c) “Assessment” means the forest resource assessment and analysis developed pursuant to Section 4789.3.
(d) “Director” means the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection.
(e) “Forest and rangeland resources” means those uses and values associated with, attainable from, or closely tied to, forest and rangelands, including fish, range, recreation, timber, watershed, wilderness, and wildlife.
(f) “Forest land” means timberland defined pursuant to subdivision (g), and other lands that have been withdrawn from timber production, such as units of the state park system, national parks, and wilderness areas.
(g) “Timberland” means land on which is growing a significant stand of trees of commercial species, or potential commercial species, either in public or private ownership or that is generally capable of maintaining a stand of trees in perpetuity and not withdrawn or otherwise devoted to uses other than timber production.
(h) “Timber” means wood fiber of commercial or potential commercial species growing on timberland as defined in subdivision (g).
(i) “Rangeland” means land on which the existing vegetation, whether growing naturally or through management, is suitable for grazing or browsing of domestic livestock for at least a portion of the year. Rangeland includes any natural grasslands, savannas, shrublands (including chaparral), deserts, wetlands, and woodlands (including Eastside ponderosa pine, pinyon, juniper, and oak) which support a vegetative cover of native grasses, grasslike plants, forbs, shrubs, or naturalized species.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - California Code, Public Resources Code - PRC § 4789.2 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/public-resources-code/prc-sect-4789-2/
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