N.J. Admin. Code § 7:50-6.47

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 11, June 3, 2024

Section 7:50-6.47 - Additional standards for State forestry practices

(a) In addition to the standards in 7:50-6.46, forestry activities undertaken by or on behalf of any State agency shall meet the following additional standards:

1. Individual forestry practices on State conservation lands shall seek to maintain biological diversity and landscape integrity characteristics of the Pinelands by:

i. Conserving existing Atlantic white cedar stands unless there is demonstrable evidence of destruction by fire, flooding or other natural disaster or where succession to a hardwood or other swamp is irreversible and impending; and

ii. Conserving exemplary forest stands, with emphasis on older and more mature stands, of the following types:

(1) Mixed hardwood swamp;

(2) Chestnut oak;

(3) Black oak;

(4) Scarlet oak;

(5) White oak;

(6) Pitch pine;

(7) Shortleaf pine;

(8) Virginia pine; and

(9) Southern red oak.

(b) The standards of 7:50-6.46 and the requirements of (a)1 above may be modified through the Commission's approval of management plans for State conservation lands pursuant to 7:50-4.51 through 4.58, provided that such modifications are necessary to: facilitate specific research efforts designed to regenerate Atlantic White Cedar; create habitat patches for threatened and endangered plant and animal species; or evaluate the ecological impacts of silvicultural techniques. Short-term and long-term monitoring that documents the outcomes of such Atlantic White Cedar regeneration research, habit patch creation or silvicultural techniques evaluation shall be performed and reported to the Commission. The protocols provided in the "Recommended Forestry Management Practices Report," Appendix III - Research and Monitoring, dated March 2006, as amended and supplemented and available at the principal office of the Commission or at http://www.nj.gov/pinelands, may be used as a guide in the development of research and monitoring techniques.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:50-6.47

New Rule, R.1996 d.225, effective 5/20/1996.
See: 27 N.J.R. 3878(a), 28 N.J.R. 2596(a).
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 7:50-6.46 and amended by R.2010 d.029, effective 3/1/2010.
See: 41 N.J.R. 2402(a), 42 N.J.R. 629(a).
In the introductory paragraph of (a), updated the N.J.A.C. reference; deleted former (b); recodified former (c) as new (b); and rewrote (b). Former N.J.A.C. 7:50-6.47, Guidelines and requirements for financial sureties, recodified to N.J.A.C. 7:50-6.48.