This research was carried out in the Al-Shouh forest located in the reserve of Cedar and Cilician fir in Slonfeh - Lattakia governorate in the Syrian coastal mountains region, which is one of the most important threatened forest ecosystems in Syria. The aim of the research is to assess the economic and social effects of the reserve of Cedar and Cilician fir from the local community' point of view of, and then evaluate the determinants of the population's satisfaction with this reserve using discrimintal analysis, while satisfaction was measured using the five-point Likert scale. The research was based on preliminary data for a random sample of families living in the vicinity of the reserve in 2021. The size of this sample was 100 families. The focus was on interviewing the household hid to obtain the required information through the study questionnaire. The results showed that the overall evaluation of the reserve from the point of view of the sample members according to the Likert scale tends in favor of the acceptance categories (positive) with an average of 3.5 points, which indicates the positive role of the reserve at the level of the local community.
