Requires that the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission revisit its existing rules and consider stricter requirements with respect to leak detection and repair, pipeline inspection, emissions from “pneumatic tools” like gas-driven pumps, and more.
Provides financial assistance to landowners for development of management plans and for practices including reforestation, afforestation, soil and water protection, wildlife habitat improvement and forest recreation.
Provides funding for reforestation and forest improvement work.
Provides financial and technical assistance to qualified private and local government owners to plant trees and improve management of forestlands for timber production and environmental purposes.
Private land used for “good faith subsistence or commercial production of trees, timber or other wood and wood fiber products” is exempt from property taxes.
Property taxes for forest lands are based on the value of the land in its current use, rather than market value, resulting in tax savings for the landowner of preserved forest.
Property taxes for forest lands are based on the value of the land in its current use, rather than market value, resulting in tax savings for the landowner of preserved forest.
Property taxes for forest lands are based on the value of the land in its current use, rather than market value, resulting in tax savings for the landowner of forest.
An incentive program that annually pays enrolled landowners $7 per acre of forested land to offset property taxes.
An income tax credit for 40 percent of the value of donated land or conservation easements.