State Forest

A state forest is a forest that is administered or protected by some agency of a sovereign state or U.S. state.

The precise application of the term varies by jurisdiction. For example:

  • In Australia, it refers to forest that is protected by state laws, rather than by the Government of Australia.
  • In New Zealand, it is forest that is controlled by a central government agency.
  • In Poland, state-owned forests are managed by the State Forests agency
  • In the United Kingdom, it refers to any forest (usually plantations) owned and managed by the Forestry Commission.
  • In the United States, it refers to a forest owned by one of the individual states.

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or forest:

    “The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.”
    —Titus Livius (Livy)

    “The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)