Extension service for private forest owners in Slovenia is provided by the Slovenian Forest Service (SFS). In the period between 2010 and 2020, the ZGS spent 879,251 net man-hours on the extension service, of which 79.9% was spent on individual advice to forest owners. As part of the thesis, we surveyed foresters (n = 225) of the SFS in all regional units. 88.0% of respondents providing extension services in the SFS are men, their average age is 47 years, and most of them have completed higher professional education (36.9%). Respondents indicated that they prefer individualized advice because it is more effective and better responds to the needs and desires of private forest owners. Respondents most often advise private forest owners on tree selection for harvesting, clearing design, silviculture and protection work, and construction of forest roads and safe logging operations. They usually communicate with private forest owners by phone or meet with them in person, but they never contact them via social media, public media, email, or mail. They are most often contacted by private forest owners who want to conduct forest management works in their forest (issuing a decision) or need information about timber buyers and registered forest management work operators. Foresters most often gain extension experience themselves in practice, which is why they indicated a need for additional training in extension activities. Because there are many areas in which foresters identify a lack of knowledge, it is necessary for the SFS to target the training of its staff to the area in which they lack knowledge.
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