for this reason there are several documents that combine and constitute the national strategies and the most important elements are the white paper on forest policy lmd the forestry act lmd regulation on sustainable forestry lmd the annual national budget the forest policy instruments and the living forests now pefc norway processes however implementation using these elements and strategies in a formal way have probably discriminated social values connected to recreation and tourism however these statistics are about the general situation and development in norway and not specific for forest areas statistics norway collects data concerning several governmental indicators within the field of recreation and tourism