Abstract
In this study, information on forests and forestry, which was actually publicized through WWW, was classified and counted according to home page administrators and information content. At the same time, Internet users' needs for information on forests and forestry were surveyed using a WWW-based questionnaire. As a result, Internet users were shown to be interested in daily-use products such as mineral water, nature/recreation such as forest therapy, and environmental problems such as acid rain. Conversely, they were not interested in forestry-related topics such as forestry machines. Internet users' interests were classified into environmental problems, forestry, forests, qualification/volunteer activities, areas famous for forests and forestry, recreation, food obtained in forests, outdoor activities and industrial products by using the cluster analysis. Among these, many of the respondents were interested in outdoor activities regardless of their age. It was found that there was a gap between information that was publicized through WWW and Internet users' needs for information except "recreation. "
