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Watershed Planning within a Quantitative Scenario Analysis Framework
Published on: July 24, 2016
Functional forest road network planning by consideration of environmental impact assessment for wood harvesting
Selcuk Gumus1, H Hulusi Acar, Devlet Toksoy
1Faculty of Forestry, Forest Engineering Department, Karadeniz Technical University, 61080 Trabzon, Turkey. sgumus@ktu.edu.tr
Abstract:
Forest management today has to meet a number of objectives. Planning of multi-functional forest road networks is one essential for meeting the aims of the sustainable forest concept. Road construction damages the natural environment unless it is carefully thought out. As forest engineers we have to consider the protection of nature when designing forest roads. With this aim in mind, a new network planning approach was developed for wood-harvesting. A geographical information system (GIS) was used to evaluate the data and planning process. The new forest road network plan for Catak Forest District constituted the addition of a new 16-road segment, total length 59.067 km, to the existing road network plan, for the purpose of wood-harvesting operations. Forest road density value was determined as 22.8 m/ha: the opening-up rate of the area was increased to 77.8% and the opening-up rate of the existing stand value was increased to 94.3% after close examination. 90.2% of roads were planned for the forest areas where there is likely to be minimal negative environmental impact.
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