In the future, due to the increasing intensity and number of natural disasters, we can expect an increase in the need for artificial restoration through planting. Planting is one of the most expensive forestry measures, so it is very important that the success of planting is as high as possible, that as many seedlings as possible survive and, as a result, the funds for co-financing planting are used as rationally as possible. The success of planting forest trees after the first growing season has been relatively rarely studied in the past, so in our research we wanted to find out how successful the survival of forest tree seedlings is after the first growing season, find out the quality of planting, assess whether the current system of planning and co-financing planting is successful, whether the use of public funds is rational, which factors have the most decisive influence on the success of planting and to prepare proposals that would help improve the success of planting forest trees. We inventoried and analyzed all objects of autumn planting 2018 in the area of ZGS OE Postojna and processed the obtained data with the JASP program. In private forests, the average survival success was higher than in state forests. Survival success was higher on smaller areas. The quality of planting was higher in private forests than in state forests. As the altitude and area of the building increases, it negatively affects the success of survival. Planting quality has a positive effect on survival success as value increases. We have prepared some proposals that would help improve the success of planting forest trees and rationalize the use of public funds. In order to improve the implementation of planting in state forests, we have prepared a proposal for criteria for the quality selection of restoration contractors, there are also opportunities for improvement in the area of the content of administrative decisions of the ZGS on the implementation of necessary cultivation works, especially in the concretization and addition of the sentence of the decision and the resulting more effective control and infringement action by the Forestry Inspectorate.
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