Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 92 — Forest Landscape Restoration
§ 7301. Purpose
Statutory text
The purpose of this chapter is to encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes through a process that—
encourages ecological, economic, and social sustainability;
leverages local resources with national and private resources;
facilitates the reduction of wildfire management costs, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes and reducing the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire; and
demonstrates the degree to which—
various ecological restoration techniques—
achieve ecological and watershed health objectives; and
affect wildfire activity and management costs; and
the use of forest restoration byproducts can offset treatment costs while benefitting local rural economies and improving forest health.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
Pub. L. 111–11 title IV § 4001 · 123 Stat. 991
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 7301
(Pub. L. 111–11, title IV, § 4001, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1141.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 111–11, title IV, § 4001, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1141.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 4001. PURPOSE. The purpose of this title is to encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes through a process that— (1) encourages ecological, economic, and social sustainability; (2) leverages local resources with national and private resources; (3) facilitates the reduction of wildfire management costs, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes and reducing the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire; and (4) demonstrates the degree to which— (A) various ecological restoration techniques— (i) achieve ecological and watershed health objectives; and (ii) affect wildfire activity and management costs; and (B) the use of forest restoration byproducts can offset treatment costs while benefitting local rural economies and improving forest health.
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