Proposition Summary

FOREST ACQUISITION. TIMBER HARVESTING PRACTICES. BOND ACT. INITIATIVE STATUTE. • Authorizes 10-year state acquisition program, limited logging moratorium, to permit public acquisition of designated ancient forests providing wildlife habitat. • Requires wildlife surveys, mitigation measures. Limits logging sites, including those near waterways. • Requires state-funded compensation, retraining program for loggers displaced by new regulations, acquisitions. • Authorizes general obligation bond issue of $742.000,000 to fund acquisition, other provisions. • Limits timber cutting practices, burning of forest residues, on California timberlands. • Mandates sustained yield standards. • Imposes new timber harvesting permit fees . • Revises Board of Forestry membership. • Discourages foreign export of forest products. Imposes penalties for violations. Summary of Legislative Analyst's Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact: • If all authorized bonds are sold at 7.5 percent interest and paid over the typical 20-year period, General Fund will incur approximately $1.3 billion in costs to payoff bond principal ($742 million) and interest ($585 million). • Estimated average annual cost of bond principal and interest is $55 million. • State administrative costs of up to $10 million annually for state forestry review and enforcement programs, fully offset by revenues from timber harvesting fees. • Such fees would also offset current state logging-related regulatory costs, thus resulting in state savings of about $6.4 million annually. • Unknown effect on revenues from other state taxes, possible decreased revenue to local governments to extent lands acquired under measure would no longer be assessed property taxes.

Proposition Number

130

Year

1990

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 3528887; A: 47.87; N: 3842733; B: 52.13

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative statutory

For Author

Dr. Rupert Cutler, President, Defenders of Wildlife; Michael L. Fischer, Executive Director, Sierra Club; David Pesonen, Former Director, California Department of Forestry

Against Author

Gerald L. Partain, Former Director, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection; Phillip G. Lowell, Executive Director, Redwood Region Conservation Council; Scott Wall, President, California Licensed Foresters Association

Rebuttal Author

John F. Henning, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO; Sue Granger-Dickson, Wildlife Biologist

Rebuttal Against Author

Robert Van Meter, President, Los Angeles Audubon Society; Jennifer Jennings, Forest Project Director, Planning and Conservation League; Jeff DuBonis, Executive Director, Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics

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