The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
002
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FOREST CONSERVATION
(Cite as: 10 V.S.A. § 2621)
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§ 2621. Duties of owners
It shall be the duty of a landowner or operator of forestland, whether public or private,
to manage, operate, and harvest forest crops that promote conditions favorable for
regrowth consistent with the policies of this chapter. All forestland on which a
lumbering operation is conducted should be left by the owner or operator in a favorable
condition for regrowth by preserving trees of commercial species sufficient under
normal conditions to maintain continuous forest growth or restocking so as to ensure
continuous or successive forest crops. So far as practicable, all desirable seedlings
and saplings should be protected during logging operations. When necessary, reforestation
practices should be employed to ensure renewed forest growth after harvesting of forest
crops. (Added 1977, No. 253 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)