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SJ 75 Private landowners; Board Forestry to study provision of incentives to hold & preserve forestland.

Introduced by: Patricia S. Ticer | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Study; incentives for preserving forestland. Requests the Board of Forestry, with assistance from the Virginia Department of Forestry, to study the provision of incentives to private landowners to hold and preserve forestland. In conducting the study, the Board is to (i) review laws and programs of other states, localities, and agencies and (ii) seek comments and recommendations from citizens, conservation groups, farm and forest landowner association representatives, and forest industry association representatives for the purpose of recommending mechanisms that will provide incentives to private landowners to maintain and preserve their forestland for the environmental and economic benefit of the Commonwealth. The Board must submit its findings and recommendations to the 2005 Session of the General Assembly.


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