HB 1128.E - DIGEST

(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 4/16/97)

     Directs the department of natural resources to adopt and to immediately begin to implement a long-range management plan for the Loomis state forest that will result in a much healthier and more productive forest.

     Directs the department to act in the immediate future to recover as much value as operationally and economically feasible from timber at risk or killed by mountain pine beetle.

     Makes an appropriation of nine hundred thirty-one thousand dollars to carry out the purposes of the act.