Abstract: The efficiency of forestry management is crucial for the development of forestry. This study developed three-stage data envelopment analysis(DEA)model was developed for measuring the technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale technical efficiency of different households forest management models. Data were collected and analyzed from 903 households in Sanming City, Fujian Province. The results illustrated that environmental variables had some impact on the efficiency of three management models. Furthermore, family annual per-capital income had a positive effect on the efficiency of individual household. How ever, the number of household work outside and forestry financial subsidies had negative influence on the efficiency of individual household. In additional, the educational level of household was favor to the efficiency of partnership and joint shareholding management. The technological level of household was proved helpful for improving the efficiency of individual household and joint shareholding management. After adjustment of the environmental variables and statistical noise, average technical efficiency of partnership management was the highest among three management models, which joint shareholding management followed and individual household was the lowest. Our findings also showed that the three managements all had input slacks. Therefore, some suggestions should be taken into consideration to improve the efficiency of three management models and decrease the input slacks.