California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 1.5 - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection › Chapter 4 - Forest Practices › Subchapter 4 - Coast Forest District Rules › Article 3 - Silvicultural Methods › Section 913.8 - Special Harvesting Methods for Southern Subdistrict

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Only the following Regeneration Methods
					 and Stocking requirements, and those described in Article 6 of Subchapter 7 of
					 this Chapter, shall apply in the Southern Subdistrict of the Coast Forest
					 District. Timber Operations shall be conducted in accordance with paragraphs
					 (1), (2), or (3) below. If the provisions of more than one subsection will be
					 used within any individual timber operation or Logging Area, a line separating
					 the areas to be cut under provisions of each shall be shown in the Plan and
					 clearly defined on the ground by paint or other means prior to filing the Plan
					 and so as to be readily identifiable during and after completion of logging.
(1) Leave uncut a well-distributed timber
					 stand after Timber Operations have been completed on the Logging Area that is
					 at least forty (40) percent by number of those trees eighteen (18) inches and
					 more d.b.h. present prior to commencement of current Timber Operations. Leave
					 trees shall be thrifty coniferous trees which were dominant or co-dominant in
					 crown class prior to timber harvesting or which have crowns typical of such
					 dominant or co-dominant trees. They shall be free from significant damage
					 caused by the Timber Operations. No conifer shall be cut which is more than
					 seventy-five (75) feet from the nearest leave tree twelve (12) inches d.b.h. or
					 larger located within the Logging Area. No area may be cut in excess of the
					 leave tree standards of this rule in any ten (10) year period. Upon completion
					 of Timber Operations one of the following Stocking Standards for coniferous
					 trees shall be met:
(A) Basal Area. The
					 average residual basal area, measured in stems one (1) inch or larger in
					 Diameter at least one hundred twenty (120) square feet per acre on Site I
					 lands, and at least one hundred (100) square feet per acre on Site II lands,
					 and seventy-five (75) square feet per acre on Site III lands, and fifty (50)
					 square feet per acre on Sites IV and V lands.
(B) Countable Trees. The area contains a
					 well-distributed stand of trees with an average Countable Tree point count of
					 at least two hundred (200) per acre on Site I and II lands, one hundred
					 twenty-five (125) per acre on Site III lands, or one hundred (100) per acre on
					 Site IV and V lands. The point count to be computed as follows:
1. Each Countable Tree which is not more than
					 four (4) inches d.b.h. counts one (1) point.
2. Each Countable Tree over four (4) inches
					 and not more than twelve (12) inches d.b.h. counts two (2) points.
3. Each Countable Tree over twelve (12)
					 inches d.b.h. counts as four (4) points.
4. Redwood root crown sprouts over one (1)
					 foot in height will be counted using the average stump diameter one (1) foot
					 above average ground level of the original stump from which the redwood root
					 crown sprouts originate counting one (1) sprout for each one (1) foot of stump
					 diameter to a maximum of six (6) per stump. Any countable redwood root crown
					 sprout over one (1) foot in height but less than four (4) inches d.b.h. shall
					 count as one (1) toward meeting Stocking
					 requirements.