This article reviews Taiwan’s Forestry Act and forestry regulations concerning the objectives of forest management and administrative control, and examines the limitations imposed by Taiwan’s legal system on the use of forest resources. Starting from the perspective of international environmental law, and using German and Japanese law as references, which discusses the possibilities of multi-use and management models for forests. Subsequently, it scrutinizes the issues related to administrative control over forest land and resource utilization under Taiwan’s Forestry Act and forestry regulations, and consider the problems regarding the normative purposes and value settings of the forestry law.<br>This article identifies the following issues in Taiwan’s Forestry Act and forestry regulations: The lack of clear regulations on the specific content of public welfare functions of forests, and the absence of value settings for the diverse functions of forests. Article 3 of the Enforcement Rules of the Forestry Act links the definition of forest land to non-urban land use control regulations, leading to significant restrictions on the use of forest land. The regulatory measures for forest products are still predominantly top-down, with insufficient regulation on diverse management approaches to forest governance. Therefore, the fundamental principles and content of the Forestry Act and forestry regulations urgently need comprehensive revision.