Abstract:

During the 60-year planned development period of Turkey, forests were also put into operation effectively. Forest road network plans have been created in order to make effective use of these areas within the scope of functional forestry. The forest roads are the main transportation facilities used in all forestry activities such as wood production, afforestation, silvicultural applications, fire fighting, forest protection, and recreational applications. Environmental awareness and functional forestry studies should be considered while planning forest road networks. In order for forest roads to provide long-term service, it is important that planning, construction and maintenance works are done well. In order to protect forest roads and keep them open to transportation, the protection and drainage structures such as protection walls, pipes, culverts, bridges should be established. In this study, the construction of the steel bridge, which was built for the first time on the forest road in Turkey, was examined. The construction techniques of steel bridges and their suitability for forest roads were investigated.

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