Substantiation of Allowable Recreational Loadings in the Forests of the Western Caucasus

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631.459.001.2:630*116(479)

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10.17238/issn0536-1036.2017.3.40

Abstract

The goal of research was to study the allowable recreational loadings in the forests of the Western Caucasus, which provided the absence of soil erosion processes on the slopes. We used the following methods in the course of the experiment: recreational loading simulation; study of soil erosion after the artificial rainfall; electronic data processing. As the recrea-tional loading increased, soil erosion also increased. Soil erosion and a cutslope ratio were interrelated. In the experimental data processing we obtained the equations, reflecting the relationship between soil erosion, recreational loading and a cutslope ratio. In the absence of soil erosion, we determined the level of recreational loadings on the slopes of different steepness according to the groups of the forest types on the basis of a graphic analysis. This allowed us to justify the allowable recreational loadings: in the forests of low mountains ? 7.6…0.5 persons / ha; in the forests of Colchis ? 1.7…0.8; in the beech forests ? 10.3…0.1; in the fir forests ? 7.3…1.4 persons / ha. In the subalpine forests of maple and mountain ash the allowable recreation loading varied from 4.2 to 0.7 persons / ha. We do not recommend to conduct recreation in the oak, chestnut and beech and hornbeam forests of low-hill ter-rains with a cutslope ratio of more than 23°; in the Colchis liana forests ? more than 17°; in the beech forests ? more than 20°; in the fir forests ? more than 18°; in the subalpine wood-land ? more than 14°.

Authors

V.M. Ivonin, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor I.V. Voskoboynikova, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor

Affiliation

Novocherkassk Engineering and Land Reclamation Institute named after A.K. Kortunov, Don State Agrarian University, ul. Pushkinskaya, 111, Novocherkassk, 346428, Russian Federation; е-mail: ivoninforest@ya.ru

Keywords

mountain forest, recreational loading, sprinkling irrigation, soil erosion, cutslope ratio.

For citation

Ivonin V.M., Voskoboynikova I.V. Substantiation of Allowable Recreational Loadings in the Forests of the Western Caucasus. Lesnoy zhurnal [Forestry journal], 2017, no. 3, pp. 40–48. 10.17238/issn0536-1036.2017.3.40

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Received on September 06, 2016