Currently, the problem of increasing the efficiency of the use of forest resources is urgent. One of the factors affecting the efficiency of the use of forest resources is the quality of the human capital of the forest sector.It is necessary to develop the key competencies of employees and future employees of the forestry sector using various forms of training. In recent years, forestry education has been actively developing based on the use of the digital technologies. The article presents the results of surveys of students on their perception of a new form of education, students’ assessment of the possibility of high-quality mastering of material in distance learning and the difficulties they face. Conclusions are also made on how digitalization of forestry education will improve the efficiency of the human capital of forest sector organizations which will affect the efficiency of the use of forest resources in Russia.

With a variety of technologies for the cutting works, the choice of them should be determined by a combination of various factors that allow us to estimate the possible level of resource savings at each stage of such work. At the moment, the ecological effect extended for a certain period of time cannot be calculated precisely. It must be taken into account when evaluating the economic effect of resource savings at the enterprises of the timber complex. Using the structural-logical diagram of methodological approaches in order to establish factors and indicators of the resource-saving effect, a system analysis is carried out, which allows us to draw up an algorithm for generating an estimate of the resource-saving effect of various cutting works.