Supreme Court of California

The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act and its implementing regulations do not provide the exclusive mechanism through which Regional Water Quality Control Boards and the State Water Resources Control Board may address water quality concerns implicated by logging operations associated with a timber harvest plan.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2006
• Published 01/30/2006

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Tom Greene, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Frank and Mary E. Hackenbracht, Assistant Attorneys General, and Nicholas Stern, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Appellant., Law Offices of Sharon E. Duggan and Sharon E. Duggan, San Francisco, for Environmental Protection Information Center as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Stoel Rives, Morrison & Foerster, Edgar B. Washburn, San Francisco, Christopher J. Carr, William M. Sloan;  Carter, Behnke, Oglesby & Bacik, Carter, Oglesby, Momsen & Bacik, John A. Behnke and Frank Shaw Bacik, Ukiah, for Plaintiffs and Respondents., Neil E. Fischer, Beverly Hills;  Barnum & Herman, Thomas M. Herman and William F. Barnum, Eureka, for California Forestry Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.