Montana Code 77-5-207. Salvage timber program
77-5-207. Salvage timber program. (1) The department shall establish a salvage timber program that provides for the timely salvage logging on state forests of dead or dying timber or timber that is threatened by insects, disease, fire, or windthrow. In managing the harvest of salvage timber, the department shall consider:
Terms Used In Montana Code 77-5-207
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- Timber: means any wood growth on state trust land, mature or immature, alive or dead, standing or down, that is capable of furnishing merchantable raw material used in the manufacture of lumber or other forest products. See Montana Code 77-5-215
(a)the economic value of the timber to be salvaged;
(b)the cost of salvage efforts; and
(c)the long-term costs to all forest resources from insects, disease, or fire that otherwise might be controlled through salvage operations.
(2)The department shall, to the extent practicable, harvest dead and dying timber before there is substantial wood decay and value loss.
(3)The department may sell salvage timber pursuant to this part.
(4)The department’s salvage timber program may not take precedence over the timely sale and harvest of green timber.