System of measures for improvement of recreation potential and sustainability of urban forest

Developing a system for conservation, sustainability and recreationalcapacity of urban forest was conducted taking into account the structure of forest landscapes, the degree of disturbance of forestecosystems, the indicators of recreational load and functional purpose plots and arrays of urban forests. When defining a set of measures,the degree of disturbance of forest landscape is taken into account as the main indicator of differentiation of the entire system, preemptingthe mode and intensity of agriculture in urban forests. The Green Fund of Tomsk city as the most important environmentalfactor of the living environment is a collection of urban land with the presence of live vegetation from trees and herbaceous plants innatural and artificial origin, including urban forests. For proper organization and management practices in urban forests a provision orregulation of the citys green fund use is required, in which a proper modern legislative framework determining the legal status of thefund balance inventory of individual objects, forms of ownership and use, administration and management, protection and reproduction,the environmental potential assessment should be given. In the course of field studies and laboratory works analysis was carried out ofthe plantations, proposals were developed for a sustainable protection of forest stands: species, technologies, volumes and cost cuttingand reconstructive planting within the sanitary protection zone, as well as advice on gardening the territory around the plant. However,the sanitary protection zone of the Tomskneftekhim (Tomsk Oil and Chemical Plant) is not separated from the buffer zone of the SiberianChemical Plant, where it resides; it has not been approved legally; and it is not included in materials management. The results obtainedin the study of urban forests in Tomsk indicate long-term lack of care and, consequently, need to develop a system of forestrymeasures to optimize the health of urban forests. It is important to provide the relevant scientific evidence for these recommendations.Thus, for landscaping the urban area it is crucial to study in detail the conditions for growing plants in a suburban environment, find theright system of care for plants and carry out the selection of species with appropriate ecological features, as well as valuable aestheticand architectural qualities.

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