Analysis of public relations in forest enterprises

Public participation in forests recently is very important, because it is one of the aims in politics and its implementation in Lithuanian forestry. Public participation related to forestry may increase public awareness of forests and forestry among the public through active collaborative learning, mutual recognition and constructive co – operation among forest related actors. Object: Lithuanian forest enterprises, web sites, newspapers “Lietuvos rytas” “Respublika” 2004, public. Methods: questioning, document analysis. Results: The purpose of this study is to research action of public participation in forest enterprises and to research image of foresters in media and public. It was estimated that chiefly work of public participation in forest enterprises do vice – forester of forestry (13 forest enterprises), engineers (12), proficient of public participation (10) and other (5). After public opinion poll was estimated that proceeding of foresters assess positively 44%, right enough – 36%, negative – 15%, 5% suppose that forests grow successfully without foresters.