In the course of the implementation of the Second Functional Reform Act, the forestry sovereignty tasks were transferred from the Offices for Agriculture, Land Consolidation and Forestry (ALFF) to the counties and independent cities on January 1, 2010. In order to carry out the legally transferred tasks, the Lower Forestry Authority was established in the Börde district. It is affiliated with the nature conservation and forestry department of the nature and environment service. The Lower Forestry Authority is responsible for the following tasks:
Approval procedures according to the Saxony-Anhalt State Forest Act (LWaldG):
- Conversions of forest into another type of use
- First afforestation of areas not previously planted with forests
- Clear-cutting subject to approval
- New construction and expansion of forest roads
- Secondary forest uses such as litter and grass use or forest pasture
- Public events in the forest
- Driving on forest roads
Forest supervision
- Ensuring the proper forest management of the forest (e.g. control of the reforestation obligation)
- prevention, detection and prosecution of violations of forest law, punishment of administrative offences
- Advising private forest owners on general forest management issues
- Orders for the protection of the forest
Statements as a public interest group, e.g. for:
- Planning approval and planning permit procedures (e.g. road construction projects, pipeline routes, mining law procedures)
- Procedures under building law (e.g. urban land use plans and development plans, building permit procedures)
- Immission control and waste management procedures
Individual sovereign enforcement tasks are performed, for example, in the Forest Reproductive Material Act and the Plant Protection Act.
- Control of the harvest of forest reproductive material, issuance of stem certificates
Determination of the forest status of areas and keeping the forest register
Activity in the Forestry Committee
