RCW 79.155.020
Community forestland trust—Department authorized to create and manage.
(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, hold title to, and manage directly or through mutual agreement with other landowners land suitable for sustainable forest management, to be held in the community forest trust.
(2) All land held in the community forest trust must be held by the department and actively managed, consistent with a community working forest management plan developed under RCW 79.155.080, to generate financial support for the management of the community forest trust and to advance and sustain the working forest conservation objectives established in the management plan.
[ 2011 c 216 § 2.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.
79.155.020 - Community forestland trust—Department authorized to create and manage.
79.155.030 - Identification of lands—Minimum program management principles.
79.155.040 - Department's authority.
79.155.060 - Prioritized list identifying nominated parcels of state land or state forestland.
79.155.080 - Postacquisition management plan.
79.155.090 - Use of revenue produced on community forest trust lands.
79.155.100 - Periodic review and update of community forest trust program.
79.155.110 - Statewide advisory committee.
79.155.130 - Authority to manage state lands—Authority to develop management procedures.
79.155.140 - Distribution of an amount in lieu of real property taxes.