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.
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—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The partridge and the rabbit are still sure to thrive, like true natives of the soil, whatever revolutions occur. If the forest is cut off, the sprouts and bushes which spring up afford them concealment, and they become more numerous than ever. That must be a poor country indeed that does not support a hare. Our woods teem with them both.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)