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The State regulations as of May 1 2014

Within five years of completing a timber harvest that creates a clear cut, the harvest area must be stocked with at least 450 trees per acre of acceptable growing stock trees. The harvest area may not contain any contiguous area larger than 5 acres that does not meet this condition

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please visit the site below. 

http://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/rules_and_regs/chap_20_rules_05012014.pdf 

Some of the federal regulations are the National Environmental Policy Act enforced by the EPA, one policy has agencies create an Environmental Impact Statement which is submitted to the EPA.This statement takes in affect what the expected impacts on the environment will be through the given practices of the company.

When I tried to find them, it wasn’t a cut and dried type of list, it was complicated and I am sure are a lot of loop holes. For example an EIS doesn’t need to be filed IF an EA is filed? Tricky stuff.

The EA (Environmental Assesment) may document consideration of a no-action alternative through the effects analysis by contrasting the impacts of the proposed action and any alternative(s) with the current condition and expected future condition if the proposed action were not implemented.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please click on the link below.

http://www.fs.fed.us/emc/nepa/nepa_procedures/index.htm

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 01-669 Maine Forest Service Chapter 20 Forest Regeneration& Clearcutting Standards MAINE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION, AND FORESTRY MAINE FOREST SERVICE May 1, 2014