The proposal of the Ministry of Environment, Housing, and Territorial Development of Colombia on how Forestry Zoning Plans (FZPs) should be conducted by the Autonomous Regional Corporations is analyzed; from which it can be affirmed that with the directives of the FZPs, it is not possible to obtain a sustainable zoning of forests and thereby acheive their conservation. Social Multicriteria Evaluation (SME), a technique that combines Institutional Analysis and Multicriteria Evaluation, allows overcoming this flaw; it us therefore recommended that SMEs be conducted instead of FZPs in areas requiring zoning.