California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1.5 - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Chapter 4 - Forest Practices
Subchapter 7 - Administration
Article 6.75 - Sustained Yield Plan
Section 1091.5 - Fish and Wildlife Assessment

(a) Assessment Area. The area for the fish and wildlife impacts assessment shall be at least the Management Unit under the SYP and may include the entire ownership within a forest District. Areas outside the ownership may be included as necessary to assess the potential individual or cumulative effect of Timber Operations.

In areas with multiple ownerships, landowners may cooperate to establish a management unit and develop a fish and wildlife habitat assessment and management Plan.

(b) Impacts to be addressed. The Assessment shall address threatened, endangered and Sensitive Species and other fish and wildlife Species which Timber Operations could adversely impact, resulting in significant adverse individual or cumulative impacts. The Assessment shall address, as Feasible, such Species' habitat needs and the availability, shapes and distribution of habitats in relation to harvest schedule and growth projections and the impacts of harvesting on such habitats. The SYP shall discuss and include Feasible measures planned to avoid or mitigate potentially significant adverse environmental Effects on such fish and wildlife. The Plan may also discuss positive Effects of the timber or Timberland owner's operations on fish and wildlife.

For the initial ten year period, maps by Management Unit showing significant changes to WHR types or stand structure types that are likely to result from projected Timber Operations shall be included. For the remaining periods within the planning horizon, type changes shall, at a minimum, be discussed in a narrative manner (including tabular analyses by management unit) and may include maps.

(c) Where significant impacts are identified and Feasible mitigation is not available, a THP relying upon the SYP shall address these remaining impacts. Reasonable Mitigation considered but rejected as infeasible shall be identified.