Cal. PRC § 4528
This is the official text of Cal. PRC § 4528, part of California’s Public Resources Code — covers environmental protection, state parks, and natural resource management.
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Official statutory text
As used in this chapter:
(a) “Basal area per acre” means the sum of the cross-sectional areas at breast height of the tree stems of commercial species per acre.
(b) “Countable tree” means a tree that can be used in calculating the degree of stocking under the following criteria:
(1) The tree must be in place at least two growing seasons.
(2) The tree must be live and healthy.
(3) The tree must have at least one-third of its length in live crown, except in pure stands of Douglas fir the tree must have at least one-fourth of its length in live crown.
(4) The tree must be a commercial species from a local seed source or a seed source which the registered professional forester determines will produce commercial trees physiologically suited for the area involved.
(c) “Stocking” means a measure of the degree to which space is occupied by well-distributed countable trees.
(d) “Site classification” means the classification of productive potential of timberland into one of five classes by board regulation, consistent with normally accepted forestry practices. Site I shall denote sites of highest productivity, site II and site III shall denote sites of intermediate productivity potential, and site IV and site V shall denote sites of lowest productivity potential.
(e) “Fuel break” means a strip of modified fuel to provide a line from which to work in the control of fire.
(f) “Stream” means a natural watercourse as designated by a solid line or dash and three dots symbol shown on the largest scale United States Geological Survey map most recently published.
(a) “Basal area per acre” means the sum of the cross-sectional areas at breast height of the tree stems of commercial species per acre.
(b) “Countable tree” means a tree that can be used in calculating the degree of stocking under the following criteria:
(1) The tree must be in place at least two growing seasons.
(2) The tree must be live and healthy.
(3) The tree must have at least one-third of its length in live crown, except in pure stands of Douglas fir the tree must have at least one-fourth of its length in live crown.
(4) The tree must be a commercial species from a local seed source or a seed source which the registered professional forester determines will produce commercial trees physiologically suited for the area involved.
(c) “Stocking” means a measure of the degree to which space is occupied by well-distributed countable trees.
(d) “Site classification” means the classification of productive potential of timberland into one of five classes by board regulation, consistent with normally accepted forestry practices. Site I shall denote sites of highest productivity, site II and site III shall denote sites of intermediate productivity potential, and site IV and site V shall denote sites of lowest productivity potential.
(e) “Fuel break” means a strip of modified fuel to provide a line from which to work in the control of fire.
(f) “Stream” means a natural watercourse as designated by a solid line or dash and three dots symbol shown on the largest scale United States Geological Survey map most recently published.
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