Though the forests in water conservation zones are thought to be most protected areas their state is worriting the half of respondents. Their regime should be severe varanted by international agreements. The majority of respondents consider the nature conservation to be an important activity. This can be very useful information for Russian forestry service that for the resent time had rejected a lot of projects of protected areas and seem not to care for PA network expansion. Only single answer variant could be chosen.
Similar situation is with current taiga of Siberia and Far East.
The differences in answers of respondents in European Russia and Siberia are insignificant. The results have shown that people in forest regions of Russia are concerned about problems in forest sector of Russia and are not satisfied with it current state. May be if Rosleskhoz consider one of the main its goals to achieve sustainable forestry it have to take the opinion of Russian population into consideration.