Davis signs bill putting more curbs on timber cutting

Mercury News ^ | 10/13/03 | Paul Rogers

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Landowners in the Santa Cruz Mountains and other forested areas of California who want to cut timber on their property will have to submit new information to the state showing the impacts of other nearby logging projects under a bill signed Sunday by Gov. Gray Davis.

The bill, by Assemblyman Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, was championed by environmental groups and opposed by some in the timber industry.

Under it, the State Board of Forestry will require by Jan. 1, 2005, anyone submitting a timber harvest plan to the state to include maps showing ``the location and boundaries of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable'' logging projects on land they own in the same watershed. The information must go back 10 years.

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[Sacajaweau]

Kinda reminds you of Clinton....all these last minute things that have to be undone.

Kill the logging market, let "ILLEGALS" drive, give them homosexuals benefits because they sleep together and put new burdens on businesses. That'll make the market grow. Yeh, boy that's the right track.

Wonder why people are moving OUT of California??

[Carry_Okie]

What a bunch of crap.

What the hell does "reasonably forseeable" even mean?

[ChewedGum]

Is there a way to undo all this recent damage?

Gum

[Carry_Okie]

Undo? That's tough. It's like SB60. Even if Arnold wanted to get rid of these bills, unless there is a referendum there is no way to remove them other than to go through the legislature that just passed them. My suggestion is that someone organize a package referendum rescinding without prejudice all bills between the recall and the date of certification along with a companion constitutional initiative precluding any new legislation during such a period after a successful recall in the future. A recall should imply that the officer is suspended between the date of the election and the date of certification, win or lose except in cases of nationally declared emergency or disaster. That keeps cynical declarations of emergency to a minimum while still allowing a response.

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