Massachusetts Forest Laws - E. M. Gould, Jr.
- HF-ID: HF1983-10
- Category: Research Files
- Creator:
- Date: 1983
- Location: Massachusetts
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Report promulgated 12/20/83 and drafts. 1 file folder.
- Keywords: silviculture, recreation and protection
- Abstract:
- From the HF Annual Report of 1982-1983:
- In January 1977 Ernie Gould was asked to run the Massachusetts Forestry Program Review Board. In June of that year the report went to then Governor Dukakis. The major recommendation was that the Forest Cutting Practices Act originally passed in 1940, should be thoroughly modernized as a keystone to state forest policy. A bill to do this was before the legislature every year until it finally became law in January of 1983. Now Ernie Gould is chairman of the newly invigorated State Forestry Committee charged with setting up minimum forest cutting practice regulations. This group plus an advisory committee have, at this writing, gone through ten "discussion drafts" and will soon produce its "preliminary draft" ready for public hearings and, finally, promulgation.
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