To cut a long story short, the forestry will have to face people . However, in order to do that, they have to conduct a survey and find out what problems connected with forests and forestry worry most citizens of the Moscow region. For this purpose, Greenpeace Russia conducted a public opinion poll in Moscow and Moscow region in August-September of 1999. The following are some questions and answers of the poll. The purpose of this question was to evaluate solemnity of the results.
Forests serve as the main recreation site and for some people as a working site as well.
The number of people, who visit forests of the Moscow region at least once a week in summer, can be estimated as not less than 9 million people, basing on the poll's results. This number exceeds total number of workers in timber and woodworking industries hundreds times and proves importance of the non-wooden functions of forests for the capital citizens. This is how surroundings of most summer cottages' settlements look like. Photo by M. Ivanov. This question was asked because most phone calls and letters to the office of Greenpeace Russia connected with forest issues are devoted to the problems of clear felling in the region.