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Supervisors seek amendments to AB 2494 to preserve research flexibility on demonstration forests
Summary
Lake County officials and local experts urged the board to ask the bill's author for amendments so AB 2494 (Demonstration State Forest management) aligns with the Governor's Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force and does not unduly restrict research or adaptive management at Boggs Mountain and other demonstration forests.
County staff and local forest experts told the Board of Supervisors that the current draft of AB 2494, while intending to strengthen wildfire and resilience goals, risks narrowing what qualifies as permissible 'management' and therefore could limit the range of research and demonstrations performed on California's demonstration state forests.
Dr. Jones, the county's UCCE forester, said demonstration forests play an outsized role relative to their acreage in testing…
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