The propagation of electromagnetic waves in forest enviroments at UHF （200 MHz-2000MHz） is examined for the case where both transmitting and receiving dipoles are situated within the vegetation. At UHF

the forest must be considered to be a discrete random anisotropic medium and the radiowave propagating within this medium may be represented as the sum of a mean field component and a fluctuating component. For the mean field component

the forest model is represented as a four-layered medium with two anisotropic slabs be tween the air and the ground to represent the tree trunks and foliage for calculating the direct wave

reflected wave and lateral wave. Numerical results reveal that the lateral wave is the dominant wave at UHF and the theoretical results are in good agreement with the available experimental data.