Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

The director
of the department of lands shall have the supervision, control and management
of all fire hazards created by insects, disease, other natural causes, or by
any person engaged in harvesting timber, ties, logs, poles, posts, cordwood,
pulpwood, or any other forest product or potential forest product upon lands
within the state of Idaho for the protection of forest resources, and shall
have supervision, control and management of all fire hazard reduction plans,
programs and regulations of or under the forestry laws of the state of Idaho.
The supervision, control, management or reduction, or any combination
thereof, of fire hazards referred to in this section and in this chapter may
include or be limited to the taking of protective measures reasonably intended
to prevent the injury to or the destruction of forest resources without the
actual abatement of the hazard. It shall be the public policy of this state,
without unnecessarily restricting the director of the department of lands, to
reduce, wherever practical, fire hazards by disposal or treatment of the slash
created by the harvesting of forest products, having due regard for the
effective and economical overall protection of forest land and resources.
In those cases where complete disposal or treatment of the slash is not
planned or where partial disposal or treatment is planned the state forest
warden shall submit to the director a detailed plan of protection for each
separate operation listing the proposed expenditures and the amounts collected
or to be collected. The director may approve such plan if the proposed
expenditures are limited to one or more of the following:
1. Acquisition of equipment needed for fire protection or reduction of
fire hazards referred to in this section.
2. Construction of appropriate structures aiding in fire protection or
hazard reduction.
3. Acquisition or contracting for communications or a communication
system.
4. Acquisition of appropriate tools, machinery and equipment needed for
fire protection or hazard reduction.
5. Payment of personnel and apportioned overhead employed by the forest
protective district.
6. Road maintenance and construction in slash areas where a fire hazard
exists.
The percentage of total moneys accredited to each forest protective
district that may be used within the district for protective measures in lieu
of actual abatement of the fire hazards shall be determined annually by the
director.

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