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. 10 County General Ordinance - making Authority ( G . S . 153A- 121 ) • May apply to forestry and timbering, but probably only to the extent that county zoning may apply State Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Authority ( G. S . 113A- 50 to - 66) • State regulations do not apply to land - disturbing activities "undertaken on forestland for the production and harvesting of timber and timber products and conducted in accordance with best management practices set out in Forest Practice Guidelines Related to Water Quality, as adopted by the Department (of Environment and Natural Resources) . " ( G . S . 113A- 52 . 01 (2) ) . • County soil erosion and sedimentation control ordinances also do not apply , to the extent of the exemption . • This exemption may preempt or block other types of local government ordinances (e . g . , zoning or free- standing ordinances) if they focus unduly on the land- disturbing features of timber harvesting or on forestry practices per se . Agricultural and Forestry Operations Nuisance Statutes (G. S . 106 - 701 ) • Forestry operations that have been in operation for more than one year may not be deemed a private or public nuisance because of changing conditions in its vicinity if the forestry operation was not a nuisance at the time it began • More specifically , a local government ordinance may not make such a forestry operation a nuisance or provide for its abatement • Statute does not apply to sawmill operations • Statute applies to territory outside city limits as those city limits existed when the statute was passed (in 1979) . • Statute could well have the effect of preventing a zoning ordinance from requiring that a forestry operation that - is nonconforming under the ordinance be amortized ( i . e . , terminated after a period of time has elapsed that is sufficient to allow the owner to recover the owner ' s investment in the property)