Organizational Structure
The agency is led by the State Forester who reports to the NDSU President and the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education. A wide variety of customers depend on the NDSU-North Dakota Forest Service for technical, financial and educational assistance relating to the management of private forestlands, state forestlands, urban and community forests, tree plantings and wildland fire protection.
The agency operates a nursery at Towner specializing in the annual production of one million conifer (evergreen) tree stock in over twenty species. The North Dakota Forest Service also owns and manages approximately 13,290 acres of state forests.
North Dakota Forest Service Organizational Structure