Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) "Forestry work," within the meaning of
Section 769 of the Code, includes those
activities which demonstrate professional competence in the science, art, and
practice of managing and using for human benefit while protecting the public
interest, the natural resources that occur on and in association with, forest
land.
(b) Forestry experience
qualifying to take the exam shall demonstrate an increasing level of
responsibility and complexity over the required time, and is more particularly
classified as:
(1) Forest management, which
includes that branch of forestry concerned with overall administration in
forest economics, legal and social aspects; forest mensuration, forest
regulation, and the development of access for protection and management of the
resource.
(2) Silviculture, which
includes the science and practice of controlling the composition, constitution,
and growth of forests, including also stand improvement, forest nursery
production, the techniques of seeding and planting, and
reforestation.
(3) Forest
protection, which includes the prevention and control of damage to forests,
inclusive of control of forest pests; the prevention and control of wildfire;
the protection of soils from erosion, and the reduction and repair of damage
resulting form all of these and those related to climatic agent. Up to two
years of the activities in this subsection qualify except when Section
1622(c) are
met.
(4) Forest utilization which
includes scaling, and logging involving felling, bucking, choker setting, and
skidding/yarding. Up to two years of the activities in this subsection qualify
except when Section
1622 of this article applies;
additional time can qualify when conditions in 1622(c) are met.
(5) Forest and watershed management planning,
initiated and carried out in:
(A) forest
working plans,
(B) forest practice
standards,
(C) management
contracts,
(D) litigation reports
and testimony,
(E)
trespass,
(F) the development,
maintenance and protection of wildlife habitat and forest range
resources,
(G) forest recreation
and environmental studies, and
(H)
reconnaissance and mapping in conservation of forest and watershed lands and
the yield thereof, including the investigation of wildlands
soils.
(6) Other forest
activities, including timber appraisals, forestry research, urban forestry, and
teaching college or university courses in forestry.
1.
Renumbering and amendment of former section
1622 to Section 1621.1 filed
8-4-89; operative 9-3-89 (Register 89, No. 32). For prior history, see Register
85, No. 41.
Note: Authority cited: Section
759,
Public Resources Code. Reference: Section
769,
Public Resources Code.
