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He shall have charge of all forest wardens and shall appoint, direct and supervise persons he employs to perform labor in the forest reservations or the nurseries provided for herein, and he is authorized to employ temporary forest wardens to extinguish forest fires in the Commonwealth. He shall take such action as is authorized by law to prevent and extinguish forest fires; develop a program to promote the use of prescribed burning for community protection and ecological, silvicultural, and wildlife management; enforce all laws pertaining to forest and woodlands; prosecute any violation of such laws; develop silvicultural best management practices, including reforestation, prevention of erosion and sedimentation, and maintenance of buffers for water quality, pursuant to Article 12 (&#xA7; 10.1-1181.1 et seq.); collect information relative to forest destruction and conditions; direct the protection and improvement of all forest reservations; and, as far as his duties as State Forester will permit, conduct an educational course on forestry at the University of Virginia for credit toward a degree, at farmers&#8217; institutes and at similar meetings within the Commonwealth. He shall provide for the protection of state waters from pollution by sediment deposition resulting from silvicultural activities as provided in Article 12 (&#xA7; 10.1-1181.1 et seq.). In addition, the State Forester shall cooperate with counties, municipalities, corporations and individuals in preparing plans and providing technical assistance, based on generally accepted scientific forestry principles, for the protection, management and replacement of trees, wood lots and timber tracts and the establishment and preservation of urban forests, under an agreement that the parties obtaining such assistance shall pay the field and traveling expenses of the person employed in preparing such plans. The State Forester also shall assist landowners and law-enforcement agencies with regard to reported cases of timber theft. The State Forester shall develop and implement forest conservation and management strategies to improve wildlife habitat and corridors, incorporating applicable elements of any wildlife action plan developed by the Department of Wildlife Resources and the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan developed pursuant to &#xA7; 29.1-579.B\n\nRecords of the Department composed of confidential commercial or financial information supplied by individuals or business entities to the Department in the course of an investigation of timber theft are excluded from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (&#xA7; 2.2-3700 et seq.).","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":294326,"text":"The State Forester shall supervise and direct all forest interests and all matters pertaining to forestry within the Commonwealth. He shall have charge of all forest wardens and shall appoint, direct and supervise persons he employs to perform labor in the forest reservations or the nurseries provided for herein, and he is authorized to employ temporary forest wardens to extinguish forest fires in the Commonwealth. He shall take such action as is authorized by law to prevent and extinguish forest fires; develop a program to promote the use of prescribed burning for community protection and ecological, silvicultural, and wildlife management; enforce all laws pertaining to forest and woodlands; prosecute any violation of such laws; develop silvicultural best management practices, including reforestation, prevention of erosion and sedimentation, and maintenance of buffers for water quality, pursuant to Article 12 (&#xA7; 10.1-1181.1 et seq.); collect information relative to forest destruction and conditions; direct the protection and improvement of all forest reservations; and, as far as his duties as State Forester will permit, conduct an educational course on forestry at the University of Virginia for credit toward a degree, at farmers&#8217; institutes and at similar meetings within the Commonwealth. He shall provide for the protection of state waters from pollution by sediment deposition resulting from silvicultural activities as provided in Article 12 (&#xA7; 10.1-1181.1 et seq.). In addition, the State Forester shall cooperate with counties, municipalities, corporations and individuals in preparing plans and providing technical assistance, based on generally accepted scientific forestry principles, for the protection, management and replacement of trees, wood lots and timber tracts and the establishment and preservation of urban forests, under an agreement that the parties obtaining such assistance shall pay the field and traveling expenses of the person employed in preparing such plans. The State Forester also shall assist landowners and law-enforcement agencies with regard to reported cases of timber theft. The State Forester shall develop and implement forest conservation and management strategies to improve wildlife habitat and corridors, incorporating applicable elements of any wildlife action plan developed by the Department of Wildlife Resources and the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan developed pursuant to &#xA7; 29.1-579.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":294327,"text":"Records of the Department composed of confidential commercial or financial information supplied by individuals or business entities to the Department in the course of an investigation of timber theft are excluded from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (&#xA7; 2.2-3700 et seq.).","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A"}},"ancestry":[{"id":14118,"edition_id":1,"name":"Duties of the State Forester and General Provisions","identifier":"2","label":"article","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12782,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:46:55","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:46:55","permalink":{"id":144981,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":14118,"identifier":"2","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/2","url":"\/10.1\/II\/11\/2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12782,"edition_id":1,"name":"Forest Resources and the Department of Forestry","identifier":"11","label":"chapter","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12741,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","permalink":{"id":144835,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12782,"identifier":"11","token":"10.1\/II\/11","url":"\/10.1\/II\/11\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12741,"edition_id":1,"name":"Activities Administered by Other Entities","identifier":"II","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12740,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":144833,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12741,"identifier":"II","token":"10.1\/II","url":"\/10.1\/II\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12740,"edition_id":1,"name":"Conservation","identifier":"10.1","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":143313,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12740,"identifier":"10.1","token":"10.1","url":"\/10.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":65921,"structure_id":14118,"section_number":"10.1-1104","catch_line":"General powers and duties of State Forester","url":"\/10.1-1104\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/2\/10.1-1104","metadata":false},{"id":82127,"structure_id":14118,"section_number":"10.1-1105","catch_line":"Additional powers and duties of State Forester","url":"\/10.1-1105\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/2\/10.1-1105","metadata":false},{"id":77196,"structure_id":14118,"section_number":"10.1-1105.1","catch_line":"Century forest and farm programs","url":"\/10.1-1105.1\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/2\/10.1-1105.1","metadata":false},{"id":60872,"structure_id":14118,"section_number":"10.1-1106","catch_line":"State Forester to control forest reserves and funds; 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 567 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1986 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 8 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1988, chapter 891; in 1989, chapter 215; in 1993, chapter 948; in 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0007\">7<\/a>; in 1998, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0156\">156<\/a>; in 1999, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0220\">220<\/a>; in 2000, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0997\">997<\/a>; in 2019, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0348\">348<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0353\">353<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":79172,"section_number":"10.1-1126.1","catch_line":"Silvicultural practices; local government authority limited","order_by":null,"url":"\/10.1-1126.1\/"},{"id":81665,"section_number":"56-585.5","catch_line":"Generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-585.5\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":58748,"section_number":"10.1-1181.1","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/10.1-1181.1\/"},{"id":55569,"section_number":"2.2-3700","catch_line":"Short title; policy","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3700\/"}],"permalink":{"id":144987,"object_type":"law","relational_id":82127,"identifier":"10.1-1105","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/2\/10.1-1105","url":"\/10.1-1105\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-1105\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11\/2\/10.1-1105","dublin_core":{"Title":"Additional powers and duties of State Forester","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-1105","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> The State Forester shall supervise and direct all forest interests and all matters pertaining to forestry within the Commonwealth. He shall have charge of all forest wardens and shall appoint, direct and supervise persons he employs to perform labor in the forest reservations or the nurseries provided for herein, and he is authorized to employ temporary forest wardens to extinguish forest fires in the Commonwealth. He shall take such action as is authorized by <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span> to prevent and extinguish forest fires; develop a program to promote the use of prescribed burning for community protection and ecological, silvicultural, and wildlife management; enforce all <span class=\"dictionary\">laws<\/span> pertaining to forest and woodlands; <span class=\"dictionary\">prosecute<\/span> any violation of such <span class=\"dictionary\">laws<\/span>; develop silvicultural best management practices, including reforestation, prevention of erosion and sedimentation, and maintenance of buffers for water quality, pursuant to Article 12 (&#xA7; <a class=\"law\" title=\"Definitions\" href=\"\/10.1-1181.1\/\">10.1-1181.1<\/a> et seq.); collect information relative to forest destruction and conditions; direct the protection and improvement of all forest reservations; and, as far as his duties as State Forester will permit, conduct an educational course on forestry at the University of Virginia for credit toward a degree, at farmers&#8217; institutes and at similar meetings within the Commonwealth. He shall provide for the protection of state waters from pollution by sediment <span class=\"dictionary\">deposition<\/span> resulting from silvicultural activities as provided in Article 12 (&#xA7; <a class=\"law\" title=\"Definitions\" href=\"\/10.1-1181.1\/\">10.1-1181.1<\/a> et seq.). In addition, the State Forester shall cooperate with counties, municipalities, corporations and individuals in preparing plans and providing technical assistance, based on generally accepted scientific forestry principles, for the protection, management and replacement of trees, wood lots and timber tracts and the establishment and preservation of urban forests, under an agreement that the parties obtaining such assistance shall pay the field and traveling expenses of the person employed in preparing such plans. The State Forester also shall assist landowners and <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span>-enforcement agencies with regard to reported cases of timber theft. The State Forester shall develop and implement forest conservation and management strategies to improve wildlife habitat and corridors, incorporating applicable elements of any wildlife action plan developed by the Department of Wildlife Resources and the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan developed pursuant to &#xA7; <a class=\"law\" title=\"Wildlife Corridor Action Plan; adoption\" href=\"\/29.1-579\/\">29.1-579<\/a>. <a id=\"paragraph-294326\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/10.1-1105\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"B\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">B.<\/span> Records of the Department composed of confidential commercial or financial information supplied by individuals or business entities to the Department in the course of an investigation of timber theft are excluded from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (&#xA7; <a class=\"law\" title=\"Short title; policy\" href=\"\/2.2-3700\/\">2.2-3700<\/a> et seq.). <a id=\"paragraph-294327\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/10.1-1105\/#B\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nADDITIONAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF STATE FORESTER (\u00a7 10.1-1105)\n\nA. The State Forester shall supervise and direct all forest interests and all\nmatters pertaining to forestry within the Commonwealth. He shall have charge of\nall forest wardens and shall appoint, direct and supervise persons he employs to\nperform labor in the forest reservations or the nurseries provided for herein,\nand he is authorized to employ temporary forest wardens to extinguish forest\nfires in the Commonwealth. He shall take such action as is authorized by law to\nprevent and extinguish forest fires; develop a program to promote the use of\nprescribed burning for community protection and ecological, silvicultural, and\nwildlife management; enforce all laws pertaining to forest and woodlands;\nprosecute any violation of such laws; develop silvicultural best management\npractices, including reforestation, prevention of erosion and sedimentation, and\nmaintenance of buffers for water quality, pursuant to Article 12 (&#xA7;\n10.1-1181.1 et seq.); collect information relative to forest destruction and\nconditions; direct the protection and improvement of all forest reservations;\nand, as far as his duties as State Forester will permit, conduct an educational\ncourse on forestry at the University of Virginia for credit toward a degree, at\nfarmers&#8217; institutes and at similar meetings within the Commonwealth. He\nshall provide for the protection of state waters from pollution by sediment\ndeposition resulting from silvicultural activities as provided in Article 12\n(&#xA7; 10.1-1181.1 et seq.). In addition, the State Forester shall cooperate\nwith counties, municipalities, corporations and individuals in preparing plans\nand providing technical assistance, based on generally accepted scientific\nforestry principles, for the protection, management and replacement of trees,\nwood lots and timber tracts and the establishment and preservation of urban\nforests, under an agreement that the parties obtaining such assistance shall pay\nthe field and traveling expenses of the person employed in preparing such plans.\nThe State Forester also shall assist landowners and law-enforcement agencies\nwith regard to reported cases of timber theft. The State Forester shall develop\nand implement forest conservation and management strategies to improve wildlife\nhabitat and corridors, incorporating applicable elements of any wildlife action\nplan developed by the Department of Wildlife Resources and the Wildlife Corridor\nAction Plan developed pursuant to &#xA7; 29.1-579.\n\nB. Records of the Department composed of confidential commercial or financial\ninformation supplied by individuals or business entities to the Department in\nthe course of an investigation of timber theft are excluded from the mandatory\ndisclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (&#xA7;\n2.2-3700 et seq.).\n\nHISTORY: 1986, c. 567, \u00a7 10-31.4; 1988, c. 891; 1989, c. 215; 1993, c. 948;\n1997, c. 7; 1998, c. 156; 1999, c. 220; 2000, c. 997; 2019, cc. 348, 353; 2021,\nSp. Sess. 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