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Microsoft PowerPoint - StartingPointsCLFA.ppt [Read-Only] CLFA Annual Conference
Forestry Regulation - Looking
for Results
March 5-6, 2004
Sacramento Hilton Reform Starting Points
Foresters must be sufficiently dissatisfied
with our current system to promote changes.
Understand that other states have successful
programs promoting resource protection.
We should measure a program's success by
its ability to achieve its objectives, within
reasonable economic limits. Reform Starting Points
Our Forest Practice Rules (FPR) are
designed to be prescriptive standards. They
were developed with good intentions, but
may have outlived their purpose.
Best Management Practices (BMP) can be
developed and approved by multi-
disciplinary groups. Reform Starting Points
Forest Practice Rules do not have to be
prescriptive to be effective.
Forest Practice Rules do not have to be
prescriptive to comply with CEQA.
Performance-based approaches provide
flexibility in the methods to achieve
resource objectives. Reform Starting Points
Focused auditing programs are more cost
effective than our review and enforcement
program.
Many monitoring efforts do not ask/answer
the right questions.
California is missing out on excellent
research results by adhering to a non-BMP
approach. Reform Starting Points
California is well into diminishing returns
with its prescriptive program.
Focusing upon education gives high returns
in a BMP program.
Job satisfaction and cooperative effort is
higher under a service forestry/outreach
program than our review and enforcement
program. Reform Starting Points
An environment which promotes high BMP
compliance levels is one where landowners
can see a future return on long term
investments.
Our current system has promoted
divestment by some landowners. Reform Starting Points
Though currently required by the Forest
Practices Act, THPs do not have to be a
discretionary permit, making them a
project under CEQA.
The land use, and its associated
management program, could be considered
the project, leaving operational planning
documents and notification documentation
outside CEQA review. Reform Starting Points
The Kuehl Report offered the possible
support for a performance-based pilot
program for third-party certified entities.
Use of a repeatable monitoring
methodology provides opportunity to
measure before and after results of a
performance-based pilot project. Reform Starting Points
Use an incremental approach to reform.
Work on several, stand alone but
supporting, fronts to put a light at the end of
the tunnel. Times Are Changing