Social aspects of forest recreation

Abstract

We consider the social aspects of recreational use of forests, such as forest recreants attendance and attractiveness of different stands on the size and type of locality, age, gender, employment. It was estab-lished that recreants distributed fairly evenly by the number of visits to the forest in the summer. Most vacationers are in a forest 1–2 times and 3–4 times per month. Women are in forest considerably less than men. Working in the forest are less likely than senior citizens, students and pupils. Residents of ru-ral areas are more likely than residents of large citie s, visiting the forest. More than 3/4 of the respond-ents prefer to rest in mixed stands, and one in five in the pure stands. More than a quarter of the women surveyed, and almost one in four works in favor of rest in pure stands. More than half of the respond-ents chose the pine stands as a place of rest. A large proportion of respondents (22.1%) of the answers a few tree species, including two species – 15.3%. Dominated by a combination of pine and birch, pine, birch and spruce. Women choose for rest stands consisting of one or two tree species, mostly pine, birch or mixed of these breeds. Men are more varia tion in their choice. Working are characterized by a more flexible approach to the selection of stands for summer vacation. The study offered the best in terms of recreants composition recreational forests of the country.