Rationalization of public forest management using multiple regression analysis - Focused on Jeonbuk Province in Korea -

This study was performed regression and statistical analyses for the questionnaires provided to the forest officials and forest management guiding members to provide effective plan of public forest management. The survey was conducted during the 4 months in 2006 involving 169 forest officials and forest management guiding members working in Jeonbuk province. Among the forest operation for public forest, conservation of forest ecological system was found to be the most highly affecting work through the regression analysis and recreational forest and green tourism was the operation that is currently carried out appropriately. Forest tendering operation was selected as the prime work to be performed considering the current financial situation of local government, and recreational forest and green tourism operation was selected as the project of future public forest. This study could be used to build more systematic and circumstantial public forest management activation plans that should be found to meet the social demand on public forest.