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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-904-4-0237

RECREATIONAL USE OF FOREST ROADS IN THE TERRITORY OF NATIONAL PARKS AND PROTECTED LANDSCAPE AREAS

Roman Bystrický

Free use and entrance into the landscape has been allowed for centuries in Czech Republic. Nowadays, recreation use of forests is gaining importance. At the same time, the most interesting parts of the landscape are protected in the form of large-scale protected areas such as National parks or Protected landscape areas (PLA). Significant part of the recreation usage is concentrated on marked hiking trails, cycle paths and other routes in the forest. In protected areas, it is important to preserve the most valuable parts of these areas, and therefore to direct visitors on hiking trails. Forest roads and other forest transport routes are used for these purposes. The presented study analyzes the influence of recreation on forestry infrastructure, especially regarding to the limitation of its use, using the example of National Parks and Protected landscape areas territories.

Keywords: forest (haul) road, forest road, recreation, national park

pages: 237-242, Published: 2023, online: 2023



References

  1. Bystricky, R. (2020). Quantification of restrictions on the use of forests by recreation, on the example of forest roads. In: Public recreation and Landscape protection- with sense hand in hand? Mendel University in Brno, pp. 380-386. ISBN 978-80-7509-715-6