Fla. Stat. 589.11
Duties of Florida Forest Service as to Clarke-McNary Law

(1)

The Florida Forest Service is designated and authorized as the agent of the state to cooperate with the United States Secretary of Agriculture under the provisions of “ss. 4 and 5, Chapter 348, 43 Statutes 654, Acts of Congress, June 7, 1924, known as the Clarke-McNary Law,” to assist owners of farms in establishing, improving, and renewing woodlots, shelterbelts, windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth; in growing and renewing useful timber crops; and to cooperate with the wood-using industries or other agencies, governmental or otherwise, interested in proper land use, forest management, and conservative forest utilization.

(2)

As a means of providing seedling trees for the purposes of this section, the Florida Forest Service is authorized to operate a seedling tree nursery program and to set reasonable prices for the sale to the public of seedling trees. Receipts from the sale of seedling trees shall be deposited into the Incidental Trust Fund of the Florida Forest Service.

Source: Section 589.11 — Duties of Florida Forest Service as to Clarke-McNary Law, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0589.­11 (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

§ 589.11. Duties of Fla. Forest Svc. as to Clarke-McNary Law's source at flsenate​.gov