BILL NUMBER: AB 880	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 6, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 22, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Nestande and V. Manuel Pérez

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 1587 of the Fish and Game Code,
relating to ecological reserves.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 880, Nestande. Ecological reserves: Mirage Trail.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Fish and Game, with the
approval of the Fish and Game Commission, to, among other things,
maintain, use, and administer land suitable for the purpose of
establishing ecological reserves. Existing law authorizes the
Department of Fish and Game to construct facilities and conduct
programs in ecological reserves to provide natural history education
and recreation if those facilities and programs are compatible with
the protection of the biological resources of the reserve.
   This bill, until January 1, 2018, would require the Mirage Trail
within the Magnesia Spring Ecological Reserve to be open 9 months of
the year to recreational hiking, if the commission determines that
certain conditions relating to Peninsular bighorn sheep are met. The
bill would require the commission to determine seasonal openings and
closures of the trail that will not conflict with the use of the area
by Peninsular bighorn sheep.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1587 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to
read:
   1587.  (a) The Mirage Trail within the Magnesia Spring Ecological
Reserve shall be open nine months of the year to recreational hiking,
if the commission determines that the following conditions are met:
   (1) Local public agencies or other entities will assume complete
financial responsibility for the following as determined to be
necessary by the commission:
   (A) Fencing to dissuade hikers from traversing beyond the trail
and into sensitive Peninsular bighorn sheep habitat.
   (B) Signage and educational materials to educate hikers about
Peninsular bighorn sheep.
   (2) A single entity has been designated to fulfill the financial
arrangements and other terms and conditions determined by the
commission to be necessary pursuant to paragraph (1).
   (b) The commission shall determine seasonal openings and closures
of the trail that will not conflict with the use of the area by
Peninsular bighorn sheep, consistent with subdivision (a).
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2018, deletes or extends
that date.