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Infrastructure planning for reclamation of forest fundsAs it is widely known, absence of full-fledgedinfrastructure for forest fund reclamation is one of the key problems in wood harvesting industry. At the present time for all forestry and for its timber cutting sector the problem of infrastructure missing is one of the key problems. Among them the weakest link is the road network.
Our communication with the lumbermen community shows that hardly anybody makes a detailed and precise statistic analysis: how many kilometres of roads and of what road categories are available at an assigned forestal area, in what state they are, how many of them are necessary and what losses because of their underdevelopment are expected is more or less unknown. Clear statistics and factor analysis are just missing. There is no substantiated notion of how many main forestal and technological roads there are and how many of them are necessary, how it correlates with summer and winter state of forest reserves, how it influences reclamation of the projected cutting area at the allocated territory and what requirements in machinery, people, and money there are. It is the question pertaining to all.
It is a vicious circle: underdevelopment of infrastructure, above all of road networks, leads to low reclamation of the designed cutting area. Low volumes of timber cutting are an obstacle to creation of processing capacities, and their absence deprives an investor of financial possibility to invest into road networks development. To break this circle is possible only via investment into creation of project servicing infrastructure, herewith not violating social, ecological, and other norms.
At preparing investment programs, private forest businesses should stipulate expenditures connected with infrastructure development and, first of all, with networks of both main and access forest-hauling roads.
Works on planning of investment expenditures into creation and development of project servicing infrastructure must be implemented at the stage of elaboration of the project.
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