Determination of existing forest roads adequacy to manage forest area (Aday Çamlıbel Forest Sub-District Directorate)

It is necessary to be able to manage forest areas in the best way and to provide access to forest areas for intensive forest management. In this study, Daday Çamlıbel Forest Sub-District Directorate, which is chosen as a sample study area, has been determined spatially with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) the areas that cannot be opened. Within the scope of the study, for the forest areas that could not be opened to exploitation, new roads were proposed to open it. As a result, it has been determined that the Çamlıbel Forest Sub-District Directorate, with a size of 10017.7 hectares, 5644.2 ha (74.8%) of the 7544.1 ha forest area has been put into service by existing roads. With the new 15 + 845 km forest roads planned in GIS, for Çamlıbel Forest Sub-District Directorate 439.8 ha forest area will be opened for further forestry purposes. In case these new roads are built, 6087 ha of Çamlıbel Forest Sub-District Directorate will be opened to serve the forestry purposes and the percentage of the opened area will be 80.7%.