These Provisions shall not apply to the management of urban landscaping. Article 3 People's governments at all levels shall strengthen their leadership over the protection and management of forest resources.
City Forestry Bureau is responsible for the protection and management of forest resources in the city. County (city, district) forestry administrative departments are responsible for the protection and management of forest resources within their respective jurisdictions. Article 4 People's governments at all levels shall formulate and implement afforestation plans, encourage and organize organs, enterprises and institutions, social organizations, other economic organizations and individuals to carry out afforestation activities, and ensure the realization of the goal of improving forest coverage.
All units and individuals have the obligation to protect forest resources, and have the right to stop, report and accuse acts of destroying forest resources. Article 5 The following acts are prohibited in forest land:
(a) deforestation, quarrying, sand mining and earth borrowing;
(two) cutting wood and grazing in young forest land;
(3) Ultra-strength logging;
(4) Other acts of deforestation. Article 6 The administrative department of forestry shall demarcate special-purpose shelterbelts and woodlands protection areas, and publish them after approval by the people's government at the same level, and set up boundary markers and boundary markers.
Woodland in protected areas is prohibited from being used for other purposes; In addition to tending and regeneration, it is forbidden to cut trees in protected areas in other ways. Seventh strictly control the occupation and requisition of forest land. Because of national construction and township (town) village construction, it is really necessary to occupy or requisition forest land. After being approved by the administrative department of forestry according to the following procedures, the formalities for examination and approval of construction land can be handled.
(a) the occupation of state-owned forest farms, nursery forest land, or the occupation and requisition of other forest land of more than 20 mu but less than 2,000 mu, shall be audited by the municipal forestry administrative department and submitted to the provincial forestry administrative department for approval;
(two) the occupation and requisition of other forest land 10 mu but less than 20 mu, the county (city, district) forestry administrative department for examination and approval;
(3) Occupation and requisition of other forest land below 10 mu shall be approved by the administrative department of forestry of the county (city, district) and reported to the administrative department of forestry of the city for the record. Eighth due to the expropriation and occupation of forest land, forest land ownership and use rights change, the unit that has obtained the right to use forest land shall go through the registration formalities for ownership change and replace the relevant certificates. Ninth units that have been approved to occupy or requisition forest land must use forest land within the approved quantity and scope, and it is strictly forbidden to occupy forest land outside the approved scope. Article 10 Units and individuals engaged in sand mining and other production activities in forest land must go through other examination and approval procedures in accordance with the provisions after being approved by the forestry administrative department of the local county (city, district).
Approved sand and gravel mining in forest land must be carried out in accordance with the location, area and time stipulated by the administrative department of forestry, and reclamation shall be carried out according to the provisions of land reclamation. Article 11 Units and individuals that have been approved to occupy and requisition forest land for various constructions and sand mining must pay the forest vegetation restoration fee to the forestry administrative department in accordance with regulations, and pay compensation fees to the units that have been requisitioned and occupied forest land. Article 12 Logging must be carried out in accordance with the procedures stipulated in Article 28 of the Forest Law and Article 19 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Forest Law. Rural residents cut down private plots in front of and behind their houses and scattered trees owned by individuals. Thirteenth units and individuals applying for forest cutting license shall submit relevant documents to the issuing authority in accordance with the provisions of Article 18 of the detailed rules for the implementation of the Forest Law. The approval documents of the provincial forestry administrative department must also be submitted for the felling of trees built with state loans and working capital. Article 14 The organ that examines and approves the issuance of forest cutting licenses shall not issue licenses beyond the approved annual cutting quota. Fifteenth units and individuals that have been approved to cut trees must cut trees in accordance with the location, area, tree species, number of trees, cutting methods and time limit stipulated in the forest cutting license. Sixteenth units and individuals that have been approved to cut trees must complete the task of reforestation according to regulations after cutting. After the expiration of reforestation, the organ that issued the tree cutting license shall accept the tree renewal acceptance certificate.
Units and individuals cutting trees must submit the latest forest renewal acceptance certificate when applying for forest cutting license. Seventeenth forest resources management units can set up tourism, recuperation and other undertakings, improve the ecological and economic benefits of forest resources, but shall not damage trees and woodlands.
The use of collective forest resources to carry out the above activities must be approved by the municipal forestry authorities; The use of state-owned forest resources shall be approved by the provincial forestry administrative department. Eighteenth people's governments at all levels or the competent forestry administrative departments shall commend and reward the units and individuals that have made remarkable achievements in carrying out afforestation activities, managing and protecting forest resources, as well as the meritorious personnel who have stopped, reported and destroyed forest resources.