State Forests ( pl, Lasy Państwowe, full name: ''Państwowe Gospodarstwo Leśne Lasy Państwowe'', literally National Forest Holding "State Forests", but usually referred to as State Forests National Forest Holding) is a Polish governmental organization that manages state-owned

Polish forests Forests cover an estimated 35% of Poland's territory, and are mostly owned by the state. And are increasing at a fast rate by 2035 Polands forest percentage will be 40-42%. Western and northern parts of Poland as well as the Carpathian Mountain ...

on behalf of the

Polish State Treasury A treasury is either *A government department related to finance and taxation, a finance ministry. *A place or location where treasure, such as currency or precious items are kept. These can be state or royal property, church treasure or in p ...

.Marek Matecki
State Forests National Forest Holding
2010-06-16 The organization does not have a

legal personality Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or altogether the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person ( ...

and is required to be financially self-sufficient. The Act on Forests of 28 September 1991, with amendments, makes the State Forests responsible for "forest management to ensure general protection of forests, sustainable maintenance, continuity and sustainable use of all forest functions and increase of forest resources".The State Forests in Figures 2009
It was founded in 1924 and oversees about 7.5 million

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

s (an area that constitutes about 25% of Poland's territory) of forested terrain. The territory managed by the State Forests covers about 77.8% of Polish forests.Raport o stanie lasów w Polsce 2009
(Report on the state of forests in Poland 2009), Centrum Informacyjne Lasów Państwowych, 2010 Notably, State Forests do not manage Poland's National Parks. They are, however, involved in managing of forests in Landscape Parks (which cover about 8% of Poland's territory). As of 2008, the fixed assets owned by State Forests were worth PLN 3,659.3 million. In 2013, State Forests received the prestigious Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation, for outstanding contributions in the management and preservation of the environment (se

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Managed forests

As of 31 December 2008, State Forests managed 7,595,372 hectares. These were classified as: * forests, total 7,264,353 ha, including: afforested land 6,972,731 ha, non-afforested land 91,714 ha * farmland 153,261 ha * wasteland 102,742 ha * waters 9,392 ha * trees and shrubs outside forest 13,118 ha Over 70% of trees administered by State Forests are

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accep ...

and

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...

. The average age of the trees is around 60 years.

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a The Act on Forests of September 28, 1991, translated, states that "Forests constituting Treasury property are under the administration and management of the Lasy Państwowe (State Forests) National Forest Holding, hereinafter referred to as “the State Forests”". Organization's own website uses the term "State Forests National Forest Holding" without parenthesis or quotation marks. b As of 2012, Poland had 9,100,000 hectares of forests, representing about 29,2% of country's total territory. Its overall percentage is still increasing. Forests of Poland is managed by the national program of reforestation (KPZL), aiming at an increase of forest-cover to 33% in 2050. c National Parks constitute 2% of Polish forests, and cover about 0,6% of Poland's territory.

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State Forests National Forest Holding
(homepage, English version)
The Act on Forests of September 28th 1991 (Consolidated text)
{{Authority control 1924 establishments in Poland Government agencies of Poland

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