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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) operates eight Demonstration State Forests totaling 71,000 acres. The forests represent the most common forest types in the state. The State Forests grow approximately 75 million board feet of timber annually and harvest an average of 30 million board feet each year, enough to ...
The bill consisted of two titles, the first affecting conservation and recreation and the second affecting renewable energy permitting. [1]The conservation title sought to create two new national monuments: the 941,000 acres (3,810 km 2; 1,470 sq mi) Mojave Trails National Monument along Route 66 and the 134,000 acres (540 km 2; 209 sq mi) Sand to Snow National Monument, which would connect ...
The California Department of Conservation is a department within the government of California, belonging to the California Natural Resources Agency.With a team of scientists, engineers, environmental experts, and other specialists, the Department of Conservation administers a variety of programs vital to California's public safety, environment and economy.
The policies protecting land used in Big Sur are some of the most restrictive local-use standards in California, [1] and are widely regarded as one of the most restrictive development protections anywhere. [2] The program protects viewsheds from the highway and many vantage points, and severely restricts the density of development. About 60% of ...
In 2009, the Resources Agency adopted its current name of the California Natural Resources Agency to better reflect its primary mission of protecting the state's natural resources. Today, the California Natural Resources Agency stewards 100 million acres of California's land, hundreds of rivers and lakes, and more than 1,000 miles of coastline. [1]
(By comparison, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection completed about 105,000 acres of fuel treatment, including 36,000 acres of prescribed burns during the 2023 fiscal year ...
The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 is a federal law (Pub. L. 103–433) sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein, passed by the United States Congress on October 8, 1994, and signed into effect by President Bill Clinton on October 31 of the same year, that established three separate National Park System units in California's Mojave Desert: Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree ...
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA / ˈ s iː. k w ə /) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, [1] [2] shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.