79.155.050 – Criteria for identification and prioritization of forestlands suitable for potential inclusion in the community forest trust.
RCW 79.155.050 Criteria for identification and prioritization of forestlands suitable for potential inclusion in the community forest trust. (1) The department shall, if it establishes a community forest trust program, develop criteria to be used for the identification and prioritization of forestland that is suitable for potential inclusion in the community forest trust due to […]
79.155.060 – Prioritized list identifying nominated parcels of state land or state forestland.
RCW 79.155.060 Prioritized list identifying nominated parcels of state land or state forestland. (1) The department shall, if it establishes a community forest trust program, submit biennially to the office of financial management and the appropriate committees of the legislature a prioritized list that identifies nominated parcels of state land or state forestland that are […]
79.155.020 – Community forestland trust—Department authorized to create and manage.
RCW 79.155.020 Community forestland trust—Department authorized to create and manage. (1) If deemed practicable by the commissioner, the department is authorized to create and manage, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, a discrete category of natural resource lands in a nonfiduciary community forestland trust. The department is authorized to assemble, hold title to, and […]
79.155.030 – Identification of lands—Minimum program management principles.
RCW 79.155.030 Identification of lands—Minimum program management principles. (1) The department must identify lands for inclusion into the community forest trust, and manage the resulting community forest trust lands, in furtherance of goals that must be identified by the department prior to the creation of a community forest. (2) In addition to any goals for […]
79.155.010 – Findings.
RCW 79.155.010 Findings. (1) The legislature finds that since the 1980s, about seventeen percent of Washington’s commercial forests have been converted to other land uses. (2) The legislature further finds that as these forests vanish, so do the multiple benefits they provide to our communities such as local timber jobs, clean air and water, carbon […]