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The aim of this article is to present legal and economic aspects of financial management in the biggest domestic forestry market participant - the State Forests National Forest Holding. In the economic aspects, the analysis mainly concerns on such factors and issues as structure and trends related to revenues and costs of the State Forests or the Forest Fund. The economic analysis was based on data obtained from statistical reports of the Polish Central Statistical Office (CSO) and the State Forests’ financial reports. In terms of legal aspects concerning financial managements in the State Forests, the article focuses particularly on the Forests Act of 1991 and on the Regulation on detailed rules of financial management in the State Forests of 1994. The legal analysis presents brief characteristic of current regulations shaping basic directives and principles of financial management in the State Forests.