Public relations
Public relations are being developed by the following activities:
- popularization of forests, defined as spreading of popular knowledge and information about forests and raising awareness of the public as to the importance of forests, is determined by the Act on Forests. It is carried out by means of various activities for different target groups;
- informing the public about the work of the Slovenian Forest Service and of interesting topical events related to forests;
- providing information of public interest in accordance with the provisions of the Act on Access to Information of Public Interest, passed in Slovenia in 2003;
- business communication with associates, these being organizations and institutions with which the Slovenian Forest Service collaborates on formal ground or on the basis of informal mutual interests.
Education and training of forest owners
The Slovenian Forest Service develops its relations with forest owners through the following activities:
- individual counselling for forest owners is carried out mostly in personal contacts between the district forester and the forest owner when marking trees for felling, preparing the annual forestry work plan and issuing ordinances for silvicultural work, forest protection work and others for forest owners. Advice can also be provided by other means of communication;
- group training of forest owners is performed by courses on forestry technique, in workshops on silviculture and forest protection, by lectures and excursions for forest owners, study circles, exhibitions at fairs and other events;
- education by printed, electronic and video materials;
- education by media (radio, television).
Forest educational trails
Forest educational trails are marked trails through the forest, equipped with educational texts. They serve to raise public awareness and improve understanding of the forest and help the public develop a more responsible attitude to it. The two first forest educational trails were established in 1974 and there are currently more than 90 of them in Slovenia. We provide professionally guided tours for groups of visitors, but recently more and more attention on forest educational trails has been given to the interpretation of forest and nature.
