The library of the institute is a depository of scientific literature on the forest themes for the regions of Siberia and Far East.

In the activities of the Institute a great place is taken by investigations in the forests of Lake Baikal started on the initiative of academician A.B.Zhukov yet in the early 1970s.

For a number of years the institute has been developing application methods of information coming from flying vehicles (planes, satellites) to estimate condition of forest cover of taiga zone under the impact of anthropogenic and natural factors.

Continuation of this work nowadays is the development of the technique of woodstand taxation and morphology structure investigation on the basis of laser, digital photo and video survey, digital satellite survey and three-dimensional taxational computer analysis of images.

Long-term investigations of Siberian forests are reflected in more than 450 books and collections of papers of the Institute employees.