California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB442: Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973: working forest management plans: nonindustrial timber management plans.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Sections 4593.2 and 4597.1 of, and to repeal Section 4597.22 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to forestry. forestry Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973: working forest management plans: nonindustrial timber management plans. Under the Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973, the Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to encourage prudent and responsible forest management of nonindustrial timberlands by approving working forest management plans in advance…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Sections 4593.2 and 4597.1 of, and to repeal Section 4597.22 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to forestry. forestry Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973: working forest management plans: nonindustrial timber management plans. Under the Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973, the Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to encourage prudent and responsible forest management of nonindustrial timberlands by approving working forest management plans in advance. Existing law regulates nonindustrial tree farmers and working forest landowners for timberland management purposes, including by setting a maximum acreage each may own, and authorizes a person who intends to become a nonindustrial tree farmer or a working forest landowner to submit to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection a nonindustrial timber management plan or a working forest harvest plan, respectively, regarding that acreage. Existing law provides a maximum of 2,500 acres owned for nonindustrial tree farmers and nonindustrial timber management plans and a maximum of 10,000 acres owned for working forest landowners and working forest management plans. This bill would increase the maximum acreage for nonindustrial tree farmers and nonindustrial management plans to 4,000 acres and for working forest landowners and working forest management plans to 15,000 acres. Existing law requires the harvest area of a working forest management plan to be …