History

History of the company is associated with formation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, although some places were used by military already in Austria - Hungary monarchy. The first evidence confirming the existence of institutions that can be considered the predecessor of Military Forests and Estatets of SR is the Government Regulation n. 76 from the year 1928 of establishing Military Forest Enterprises.

Military training areas were based in the period 1946-1951 in which economic activities were carried out by VLM SR. The post-war period was characterized by the lack of mechanisms, professional staff and workers. Education and forest protection in time of war have been largely neglected, which predetermined the onset of windy and crustacean calamities.

In the sixties and seventies, the post-war situation began to improve. There has been a general stage of development, when was the basic infrastructure of business formed and subsequently continued to expand. New scientific – technical knowledge has been implemented into the practise, which resulted in the complete mechanization of logging and some other activities of associated production.

During this period, the role of VLM SR increased in landscape conservation and environmental protection in military training areas, which mainly dealt with large-scale sanitatin and reclamation measures.

In current form the Vojenské lesy a majetky Slovenskej republiky, štátny podnik with the seat in Pliešovce came into existence after the split of Czechoslovakia on the 1. January 1993 established by corporate charter of the Ministry of Defence of SR as a welfare enterprise to the management and the use of forest and agricultural property and natural resources. The state enterprise manages directly the Forest Management Vidov Vrch and branch plants in Malacky, Kežmarok and Kamenica nad Cirochou.