30 chapters · 656 sections in this title.
RCW 79.155.010 Findings.
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(1) The legislature finds that since the 1980s, about seventeen percent of Washington's commercial forests have been converted to other land uses. (2) The legislature further finds that as these forests vanish, so do the multiple benefits they provide to our communities such as l…
RCW 79.155.020 Community forestland trust—Department authorized to create and manage.
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(1) If deemed practicable by the commissioner, the department is authorized to create and manage, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, a discrete category of natural resource lands in a nonfiduciary community forestland trust. The department is authorized to assemble, …
RCW 79.155.030 Identification of lands—Minimum program management principles.
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(1) The department must identify lands for inclusion into the community forest trust, and manage the resulting community forest trust lands, in furtherance of goals that must be identified by the department prior to the creation of a community forest. (2) In addition to any goals…
RCW 79.155.040 Department's authority.
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(1)(a) Except as limited by RCW 79.155.070, the department is authorized to acquire by purchase, gift, donation, grant, transfer, or other means other than eminent domain fee interest or a partial interest, including conservation easements, in lands or other real property suitabl…