The use of forests in the river Zagrža basin for the conservation of its hydrological and water protective function

Abstract

The data on forests shown in this paper which are general useful functions determine the main way of managing, because these forests are marked as water protective and especially significant for the water supply of the Vrnjačka Banja area from 1985. These are forests of beech and beech mixed with fir of the highest quality located in the river Zagrža basin on mountain Goč and they represent more than 85 % of the basin and provide the hydrological and water protective functions at the highest level. For that reason, they have a special protective status. In the river Zagrža basin, there is the management unit "Selište" of particular importance and the accumulation Selište was built there with about 380 000 m3 volume and its primary task is water supply of the Vrnjačka Banja area during critical months without water. The aim of this scientific paper is to emphasize the need of increasing and protecting the water potential using adequate ways of forest vegetation management, which means overall basin organization. The final result should be related to the optimal use of natural sources in that area.

Keywords

• protective forests
• beech
• fir
• hydrological forest function
• water quality
• the use of woody and non-woody sources