Table of Contents TITLE 76. LAND RESOURCES AND USE CHAPTER 13. TIMBER RESOURCES Part 1. Protection of Forest Resources

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76-13-101 — Purpose 76-13-102 — Definitions 76-13-103 — Applicability 76-13-104 — Functions of department –... 76-13-105 — Protection of lands and i... 76-13-107 — Classification of forest... 76-13-108 — Person responsible for pe... 76-13-110 — Owner's right to departme... 76-13-111 — Permissible expenditures 76-13-112 — Penalty for violation 76-13-113 — Destruction of signs 76-13-114 — Disposition of fines 76-13-115 — State fire policy 1 76-13-116 — Duties of firewardens – l... 76-13-119 — Exemption from environmen... 76-13-121 — Permit for burning requir... 76-13-122 — Failure to comply with pe... 76-13-123 — Failure to extinguish rec... 76-13-124 — Throwing lighted material... 76-13-125 — Spark arresters required 76-13-126 — Restrictions on mill wast... 76-13-131 — Renumbered 76-13-132 — Renumbered 76-13-133 — Renumbered 76-13-134 — Renumbered 76-13-135 — Renumbered 76-13-136 — Cooperative agreements wi... 76-13-140 — Legal representation for... 76-13-145 — Designation of wildland-u... 76-13-150 — Fire suppression account... 76-13-151 — Good neighbor forestry ac... 76-13-154 — Federal forest management...

Mont. Code Ann. § 76-13-101

(2021)

Purpose

(1) (a) It is the purpose of part 2 and this part to provide for:

(i) the protection and conservation of natural resources, range, and water; and

(ii) the prevention of soil erosion.

(b) It is further the purpose of part 2 and this part to more adequately promote and facilitate the cooperation, financial and otherwise, between the state and public and private agencies that are associated in the work.

(2) To achieve the conservation of natural and watershed resources, the legislature encourages the use of best management practices in timber sale planning, associated road construction and reconstruction, timber harvesting, site preparation, and related activities and establishes a process to ensure that information on best management practices is provided to owners and operators engaged in forest practices on private land.

Official Annotations archive.org, 2021 edition

History:

EnactedEn. 28-101.1 by SectionSec. 1, ChapterCh. 253, Laws ofL. 1974

Revised Codes of MontanaR.C.M. 1947, 28-101.1

AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 1, ChapterCh. 423, Laws ofL. 1989

AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 3, ChapterCh. 336, Laws ofL. 2007 (SB 145 - Shockley, Jim (R) SD 45)

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