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http://dx.doi.org/10.14578/jkfs.2016.105.3.315

Damage Status of the Urban Forest Trails in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do  

Kang, Min-Jeng (Forest Disaster Management Division, National Institute of Forest Science)
Park, Jae-Hyeon (Department of Forest Resources, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology)
Kim, Ki-Dae (Department of Forest Resources, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology)
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Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science / v.105, no.3, 2016 , pp. 315-320 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to establish a management plan for urban forest trails with analysis of trail damage types and soil physicochemical properties on 3 urban forest parks in Jinju, Gyeongnam-do. We found that soil hardness was significantly higher in forest trails than forest area at 0 cm and 5 cm at a significance level of 0.05. However, we could not find any significant differences for other soil properties. For the trail damage types, the most common types were as follows: trail expansion (66%), trail erosion (59%), side road (57%), and trail boundary erosion and root exposure (41%). The results showed no difference in most of these types between the trails and forest area, indicating that the forest area might be damaged as well as the trails. Priority should be given to prepare measures that prevent soil compaction from overcrowded hikers.
Keywords
urban forest; forest trails; soil physicochemical property; trail damage types;
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