DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0142

Forest engineering versus heritage conservation

Karel Sklenář

The paper deals with the following and often ignored topic: the conservation of evidence of human settlements in the forests, which is threatened by the rising of forest engineering activities. In our paper, we analyse contemporary legislative means of heritage conservation, and we try to apply these means in a case of an archaeological locality in a forest environment. Our model case is an abandoned medieval village in the area of Drahanská Highlans (Czech Republic). We intend to present how the object is registered in an information system of heritage conservation institutions, and we try to suggest some instructions on how to proceed in potential industrial activities to this object’s owner. Finally, we mention the classification issue of non-archaeological forest objects’ heritage values (i.e., a coppice’s).

Keywords: archeology, cultural heritage, legislative process, coppice, Drahanská Highland

pages: 142-146, Published: 2022, online: 2022