Introduced
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To require the Department of Natural Resources to establish four forest pilot project areas to be managed on scientific silvicultural specifications based on sustainable forestry principles. The department would contract out the management of the project area for three years, including the marking of timber, the harvesting of timber, and the reforestation of timber cutover areas. The bill is part of a legislative package comprised of House Bills 5552 to 5554, which would require state forest management to be based on sustainable forestry principles, and requires the state to seek forest certification from an independent third party organization.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management
Reported without amendment
Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.
Amendment offered
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To move back to the end of 2006 the deadline for establishing the forestry pilot projects.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 63 to 37 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Tourism
