Who: Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Sally Lieber (D-San Jose)
Paul Mason, Sierra Club California
            Paul Hughes, Forests Forever

When: 1:30 p.m. PDT, Monday, April 14, 2008

Where: California State Capitol, Room 447 (Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

What: Assembly Bill 2926 (Lieber) faces its first vote today in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.  A.B. 2926 seeks to limit the destructive logging practice known as clearcutting by reducing the size of clearcuts from 40 acres to 10 acres in size.  The bill also prohibits clearcutting of forest adjacent to a previously clearcut area until 50% crown cover has been attained—current law allows for these adjacent ‘buffer’ zones to be clearcut after 5 years.

A.B. 2926 is strongly opposed by the timber industry.

Editor’s Note: Speaker pro Tem Lieber will be available for questions prior to the Committee hearing in our Capitol Office (Rm. 3013).  Clearcutting photographs and graphics are available at www.stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org.  Audio of the Committee hearing is available via the internet at www.assembly.ca.gov/committee_hearings/defaulttext.asp.