§ 140-1. Policy.

It is the public policy of the Town of Newtown to promote the rehabilitation, maintenance and protection of forest lands for the purpose of conserving water, preventing floods and soil erosion, of improving the conditions for wildlife and recreation, of protecting and improving air and water quality, watersheds and rivers, fish and wildlife resources, forest soils, aesthetic, social and economic benefits, fire protection, timber regeneration capability, sustained forest productivity, and the quality of the environment, and of providing a continuing and an increasing supply of forest products for public consumption, farm use and for the wood-using industries of the Town and the State of Connecticut. As a result of this policy, all forested lands shall be kept in a condition which shall not jeopardize the foregoing public interest, and the forest practices used to implement this public policy shall be prescribed for the proper and profitable management of all forest lands.