State forest

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This sign at the entrance to the Belanglo State Forest in Australia advises visitors to "please be careful".

A state forest is a forest that is administered or protected by some agency of a sovereign state.

The precise application of the term varies by jurisdiction. For example:

In Australia, it refers to forest that is protected by state laws, rather than by the Government of Australia.
In New Zealand, it is forest that is controlled by a central government agency.
In Poland, state-owned forests are managed by the State Forests agency
In the United Kingdom, it refers to any forest (usually plantations) owned and managed by the Forestry Commission.
In the United States, it refers to a forest owned by one of the individual states.