Fla. Stat. 589.04
Duties of Florida Forest Service

(1)

The Florida Forest Service shall cooperate with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other persons to:Promote and encourage forest fire protection, forest environmental education, forest land stewardship, good forest management, tree planting and care, forest recreation, and the proper management of public lands.Apply for, solicit, and receive grants, funds, services, equipment, and supplies from those agencies, organizations, firms, and individuals.

(a)

Promote and encourage forest fire protection, forest environmental education, forest land stewardship, good forest management, tree planting and care, forest recreation, and the proper management of public lands.

(b)

Apply for, solicit, and receive grants, funds, services, equipment, and supplies from those agencies, organizations, firms, and individuals.

(2)

All grant proceeds and funds received for these purposes shall be deposited in the Incidental Trust Fund. Expenditures of these funds shall be for the purposes established in this section.

(3)

The Florida Forest Service shall provide direction for the multiple-use management of forest lands owned by the state; serve as the lead management agency for state-owned land primarily suited for forest resource management; and provide to other state agencies having land management responsibilities technical guidance and management plan development for managing the forest resources on state-owned lands managed for other objectives. Multiple-purpose use shall include, but is not limited to, water-resource protection, forest-ecosystems protection, natural-resource-based low-impact recreation, and sustainable timber management for forest products.

(4)

The Florida Forest Service shall begin immediately an aggressive program to reforest and afforest, with appropriate tree species, lands over which the Florida Forest Service has forest resource management responsibility.

Source: Section 589.04 — Duties of Florida Forest Service, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0589.­04 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

589.01
Florida Forestry Council 589.02
Headquarters and meetings of council 589.04
Duties of Florida Forest Service 589.06
Warrants for payment of accounts 589.07
Florida Forest Service may acquire lands for forest purposes 589.08
Land acquisition restrictions 589.09
Use of lands acquired 589.10
Disposition of lands 589.11
Duties of Florida Forest Service as to Clarke-McNary Law 589.011
Use of state forest lands 589.12
Rules and regulations 589.012
Friends of Florida State Forests Program 589.13
Lien of Florida Forest Service and other parties, for forestry work, etc 589.14
Enforcement of lien 589.15
Form of notice 589.16
Time for filing notice of lien 589.17
Application of general laws 589.18
Florida Forest Service to make certain investigations 589.19
Creation of certain state forests 589.20
Cooperation by Florida Forest Service 589.21
Management to be for public interest 589.27
Power of eminent domain 589.28
County commissions or municipalities authorized to cooperate with Florida Forest Service 589.29
Quality of assistance 589.30
Duty of district or center manager 589.31
Cooperative agreement 589.32
Cost of providing county forestry assistance 589.33
Expenditure of budgeted funds 589.34
Revocation of agreement 589.065
Florida Forever Program Trust Fund of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services 589.071
Traffic control within state forest or Florida Forest Service-assigned lands 589.101
Blackwater River State Forest 589.102
Blackwater River State Forest 589.275
Planting of indigenous trees on state lands 589.277
Tree planting programs

Current through Fall 2025

§ 589.04. Duties of Fla. Forest Svc.'s source at flsenate​.gov