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Planning of Forest Roads in Croatian Mountainous Forest by the Use of Modern Technologies

Primary forest communications (forest roads) represent the necessary infrastructure in today’ s intensive, integral, rational, ecologically aware forest management based on principles of constant yield, biodiversity of species and natural quality of forests. The total quantity of forest roads, their spatial distribution, as well as their prescribed technical features must be sufficient for as much as possible quality forest management with as less as possible initial and subsequent financial investment. The building and maintenance of primary forest road infrastructure network makes an important component within the total cost structure connected with the forest management. The procedure of establishing forest roads on the terrain, from the general point of view, is carried out through the following stages: planning, designing, building and maintenance. It is impossible to reach every next stage within the mentioned order without a quality completed previous stage of work. Also today, planning as a starting and initial stage of the mentioned procedure is unjustly pushed into the background. The quality planning of forest roads, i.e. making a Study of primary forest opening by applying contemporary methods, procedures and work technologies, the optimising of forest road network can be achieved, regarding various factors of optimality evaluation with the aim of achieving higher efficiency and lower length of forest roads with the lower building costs and the least possible negative influence on the whole forest ecosystem.

forest roads; openning up of forest; mountainous forests; Geographic Information System; Global Position System; Croatia

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