Rangeland forest-technical installations and the contribution of ranges to the development of mountainous regions

The rational and effective management of ranges, as a natural resource, implies infrastructure works. Among these works as first priority are rated the rangeland forest-technical installations (forest-rangeland roads). The aim of this paper is the construction of rangeland roads within the frames of a compromise between user demands and the rangeland environment towards an economic, functional, materializable and compatible to the rangeland environment, infrastructure. There have been assessed (a) the expenditures for the constructions of rangeland roads in respect to the factors affecting them and (b) the impacts rangeland roads on the environmental resources. Useful conclusions were drawn out for the construction of rangeland roads and more widely for the rational development and utilization of mountainous regions.