Constitution of the forest road evaluation form for Turkish forestry

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 5389-5394

  Gumus, Selcuk ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AHP; Forest roads; Road classification; Road evaluation; Road evaluation form

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; FIRE PROTECTION; FOREST; FORESTRY; LAND DRAINAGE; SOIL EROSION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY; WILDLIFE;

EID: 73349083056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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