Monitoring of existence forest road in Shast Kalate Forestry plan

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Natural resources Department, Mazandaran Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Sari, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of forestry, Faculty of Forest Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran.

Abstract

Forest Roads are the main element of recovering, conserving and harvesting of natural resources. The current research has down in order to spatial locating qualitative characteristics of road pavement and schedule conservation and maintenance projects in main road, 1, 2, 3 roads in ShastKalateh Forestry plan, Gorgan, Iran. First all of the roads were sampled 100% defects of Pave, Technical Buildings, Horizontal curve were recorded. As well as, Landslide and Erosion point that make the problem were recorded then restoration methods were determined. Results showed in pavement part, slump and vegetation cover on the travel way were the important problem of roads. In addition Landslide and Erosion and trees in Horizontal curve were the other dilemmas of the roads. Subsequently, annual and Periodic reconstruction schedules have been recommended. In addition Landslide and Erosion and trees in Horizontal curve were the other dilemmas of the roads. Subsequently, annual and Periodic reconstruction schedules have been recommended.

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