The forestry plays only a minor role in the poor­ly wood­ed Low­er Oder Val­ley and, even in social­ist times, was not pro­nounced either in the remains of the allu­vial for­est or in the hill­side forests, which are dif­fi­cult to man­age. For this rea­son, the Bran­den­burg Min­istry of the Envi­ron­ment, when des­ig­nat­ing the first total reserves in 1995, used the oppor­tu­ni­ty to des­ig­nate main­ly for­est areas as wilder­ness zones. In addi­tion, the asso­ci­a­tion tries to grad­u­al­ly increase the pro­por­tion of allu­vial for­est in the Low­er Oder Val­ley through biotope-set­ting measures.

Forestry has large­ly ceased in the forests of the nation­al park, even where the ear­li­er refor­esta­tion mea­sures, includ­ing for­eign woody plants and mono­cul­tures, can be found. How­ev­er, large parts of the decid­u­ous forests are already in a nat­ur­al state that is wor­thy of a nation­al park. There are no con­flicts between nature con­ser­va­tion and forestry in the nation­al park. How­ev­er, the pro­por­tion of for­est is also com­par­a­tive­ly small.