Although there is an acute danger to life from falling trees or rocks in popular hiking areas, barriers are simply climbed or removed by recreational athletes. To prevent dangerous situations, forestry work must be interrupted time and time again. Now on display!
Forest protection officer Thomas Roiß is angry: Hikers repeatedly ignore the limited forest area in the Upper Austrian Pesenbachtal in Feldkirchen/D., even though there is a danger to life from falling trees or rocks. Since mid-December, after wind and snow damage, we have been working hard to make the popular hiking area accessible again, but the work has to be interrupted at least once a day.
Blocks are simply ignored
The reason: recreational athletes climb over the barriers or simply move them aside. “We then have to stop work immediately, climb down the steep terrain towards the hikers and chase them away,” says Roiß.
‘Lazy’ excuses
The people caught do not always react with understanding, the forest workers are often laughed at: “We have come from so far away, we didn’t want to just drive back”; ‘I’m not from here, I didn’t know that’ or ‘You’re not working because you don’t hear anything’ are the excuses.
Danger to life for ignorant people
Roiß believes that hikers are completely unaware of the dangers. “If a trunk slips from the rope, it hurtles down the path with 2,000 kilos. “Stones have already come loose that were so heavy that I could not lift them away with the crane,” he says.
Unfortunately nothing new
Unfortunately, the things that cannot be learned are nothing new to him: “It happens all the time. Two years ago someone drove around a barrier. He even wanted to start the tractor we had parked on the road and drive away so he could drive past,” the forester recalls.
Now appears
In the Pesenbach Valley, those responsible have finally had enough: every violation of the closure will be reported. It is difficult to estimate how long the work will take there. The fact is that only geologists decide on a final release.
Source: Krone
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