                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STATE FORESTER TO CONTROL FOREST RESERVES AND FUNDS; REFORESTING; PRESERVATION
OF TIMBER, ETC (§ 10.1-1106)

The care, management and preservation of the forest reserves of the Commonwealth
and the forests thereon, and all moneys appropriated in that behalf, or
collected therefrom in any way, and all personal and real property acquired to
carry out the objects of this chapter, shall be subject to the control of the
State Forester.
		The State Forester shall observe, ascertain, follow and put into effect the
best methods of reforesting cutover and denuded lands, foresting wastelands,
preventing the destruction of forests by fire, the administering of forests on
forestry principles, the instruction and encouragement of private owners in
preserving and growing timber for commercial and manufacturing purposes, and the
general conservation of forest tracts around the headwaters and on the
watersheds of the watercourses of the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 10-32; 1984, c. 750; 1986, c. 567; 1988, c. 891.