Sec.22a-2-21a. State forester/(state forest fire warden)

The state forester is responsible for providing technical supervision for managing trees and forests on state lands, for preventing and suppressing forest fires, for providing planting stock to other public and to private landowners, for providing technical forestry advice and assistance to private landowners, loggers and primary wood processors, municipalities and other interested parties, for administration of the forest land tax law under provisions of Connecticut general statutes section 12-96 and section 12-107D, for operating the James L. Goodwin forest conservation center and for administering cooperative agreements with state and federal agencies and federal aid programs as they pertain to forestry and forest fire suppression.

(Effective April 27, 1978)