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Workload Analysis in the Giresun-Kulakkaya and Kemerköprü Forest Management Chieftaincies
Authors: İsmet DAŞDEMİR, Gökhan ÇAKMAK
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This study was handled to analyze the forestry workload according to seasons and business types and to find out the problems while carrying out forestry activities and to develop solution suggestions in the Kulakkaya and Kemerköprü Forest Management Chieftaincies of the Giresun Regional Directorate of Forestry in Turkey. The data obtained from records of the Kulakkaya and Kemerköprü Forest Management Chieftaincies, and also by systematic observation, interviews and experiences in these chieftaincies, were used. According to the data, the seasonal and yearly works of the forest management chieftaincies were carried out in in 2016 were investigated by dividing work categories such as personnel, business-production-marketing, silviculture-afforestation, public relations, forest protection, cadastre-ownership etc.). The types of work in each season, and their intensity were evaluated according to the periods on the basis of the chieftaincies and the differences were revealed. In addition, the factors affecting the work load and the main problems in the forest chieftaincies were determined. According to the results of the research, forestry activities, their densities and periods, main problems, and the factors affecting workload in the Kulakkaya and Kemerköprü Forest Management Chieftaincies are similar. It was determined that works related to forest management, combating forest fires, construction and forest rest areas were the highest in the summer months, silviculture and afforestation works were the highest in the spring, works of forest roads were the highest in the summer and spring, works related to compulsory wood needs and non-wood forest products were the highest level in the autumn, whereas the works related to fighting against forest pests, cadastral-ownership, production, transportation, storage, personnel, marketing, fighting against forest crime, research, planning, office works, correspondence and public relations continued intensely in all seasons. According to the results, some proposals were developed to reduce the workload of the forest management chiefs and to solve the problems, and thus to work more efficiently and successfully.