Le réseau pour la gestion durable des forêts cultivées.
FORSEE : Indicateur évalué
| Indicator 3.6 & 3.7: Accessibility and Harvestibility | |||||
Costs Total Cost €5002 Shared Cost €4500 Marginal Cost €502 Total Cost/ha €0.14 These cost include:
| Results
Source: Ordnance Survey Ireland Table 3.6: Roading Density
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Remarks Traditionally forestry in Ireland was confined to poor agricultural land in mountainous areas, often inaccessible by road. This is notable in the roads map above where it can be seen that a large proportion of the forest blocks occur in the centre of the pilot zone where in certain areas it can be seen that there is a complete absence of regional and third class roads. The regional and third class roads that do exist are not inter-connected in this part of the pilot zone, which will increase the length of the haulage routes to main urban areas. This is further outlined in Table 3.6 where 53% of the forest area has roading density of 0m/ha. | |||||
Problems and Improvements This will pose problems with harvestability and transportation that is yet to be resolved. To access the harvestability of the forests of the pilot zone this was not feasible due to an absence of slope’s data. | |||||
Remarks and Conclusions Results from this indictor highlighted the inaccessibility of the majority of forests in the pilot zone and the subsequent increase in haulage lengths. | |||||
   Project co-financed by European Union A community initiative ERDF INTERREG the IIIB Atlantic Area | |||||
