10.1-1164 - Pine trees to be left uncut for reseeding purposes.
§ 10.1-1164. Pine trees to be left uncut for reseeding purposes.
Every landowner who cuts, or any person who cuts or procures another to cut,or any person who owns the timber at the time of cutting and knowingly andwillfully allows to be cut, for commercial purposes, timber from ten acres ormore of land on which loblolly or white pine, singly or together, occur andconstitute twenty-five percent or more of the live trees on each acre oracres, shall reserve and leave uncut and uninjured not less than eightcone-bearing loblolly or white pine trees fourteen inches or larger indiameter on each acre thus cut and upon each acre on which such pine treesoccur singly or together, unless there is in effect for such land a planting,cutting or management plan as provided in subsection D of § 10.1-1163. Whereeight cone-bearing loblolly or white pine trees fourteen inches or larger indiameter are not present on any particular acre, there shall be left uncutand uninjured for each such pine two cone-bearing pine trees of the largestdiameter present less than fourteen inches in diameter. Such pine trees shallbe left uncut for the purpose of reseeding the land and shall be healthy,windfirm, and of well-developed crowns, evidencing seed-bearing ability bythe presence of cones in the crowns.
(Code 1950, § 10-76; 1950, p. 58; 1952, c. 417; 1956, c. 75; 1960, c. 244;1968, c. 73; 1988, c. 891; 1996, c. 285.)