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Richard Dalrymple-Hay was the first Commissioner of Forests in New South Wales, which was established in 1916. In 1895, as Chief Forester he was placed in charge of the first State forest conservation staff. As a forest Commissioner, he secured state control of forests and contributed to the first acts of forest legislation, primarily the Forestry Act 1916, which was replaced in 2013 by the Forestry Act 2013.

In the 1920s, he proposed the acquisition of land for a demonstration forest. The remaining forest, in suburban St Ives, Sydney, is still known as the Dalrymple-Hay Nature Reserve. Richard Dalrymple-Hay was honoured by the botanist Joseph Maiden, who named a eucalypt species Eucalyptus dalrympleana in Richard Dalrymple-Hay's memory.