LaTour State Demonstration State Management Plan

The 2026 LDSF Management Plan includes overarching goals and general parameters for the activities that may take place in LDSF during the next ten years (pending ongoing review, funding, and approval by CAL FIRE) and a broad vision for silviculture management of the forest through the next century. Public Resources Code section 4631 et. seq. declares it to be in the interest of the state to have productive forest lands and permits CAL FIRE to engage in management, reforestation, and protection of the state forests to that end. The 2026 LDSF Management Plant does not dictate a specific course of action CAL FIRE must take with respect to experimental resource management, data collection, research activities, and resource evaluation activities within LDSF but rather constitutes a study of possible future forest management activities that would be consistent with existing state law and policy and feasible given existing forest conditions. Activities within the plan will only occur subject to CAL FIRE’s discretionary approval of such activities, which would be subject to further CEQA review.