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Forest opening issues in Croatia

The paper deals with problems of Croatianforest opening and of attempts to increase the road density during the period 1991-1995. About 80 percent of Croatian forests and forest land are state forests. the public enterprise Hrvatske šume manages this national resource with its 16 Forest administrations. Over the last five years total road density has increased from 6.6 m/ha to 7.0 m/ha (5.7%), and in some administrations from 2.2 to 22,2 percent. With six Construction Work Units Hrvatske šume has built about 48 percent of all new forest roads, 52 percent was built by contractors. Of 280 machines and devices available before the war, 178 construction units were left in 1995. The average age is between 6.7 years (backhoes) and 16.3 years (rollers). Investment in forest road construction in the last five years has been between 62 percent (1991) and 24 percent (1995) of the total invested funds.

forest road; opening; forest road building; investment

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