- Equipment for development and maintenance of mountain terrain and hard-to-reach areas

With the Mountain Law of 1985, affecting over 5,000 municipalities, balancing urban planning, tourism development, and the protection of natural spaces is a priority for municipalities. This law was supplemented by new articles in 2016, with the Mountain Law 2. It introduces new constraints “in terms of urban planning, development, and protection of mountain spaces to limit sprawl and urban spread in these protected areas.”

Urban planning and land development in the mountains

In this field, the scope includes the creation or extension of roads, pipelines, water pipes, electrical lines, or even fiber optics. These installations are essential for the connectivity of mountain areas and the development of tourism.

With the Mountain Terrain Restoration (RTM) policy, under the control of the National Forestry Office (ONF), the prevention of natural risks in the mountains is also considered. This includes avalanches, land movements, rockfalls, and flash floods. To meet all these expectations related to urban planning and the environment, numerous technical equipment for development and maintenance are specifically developed for hard-to-reach mountain areas. Experts also recommend artificial reforestation, regrassing, the creation of avalanche barriers, or protection works for each inhabited place, like in a chalet, a refuge, and all other tourist accommodations.

Maintenance of natural spaces in the mountains

This is an important issue, especially for the preservation of biodiversity and the environment, landscapes, and cultural heritage. In the mountains, agriculture plays a crucial role in maintaining and diversifying landscapes; the practice of pastoralism is essential for the upkeep of alpine pastures. With reasoned tourism, the preservation of biodiversity, and the search for sustainable development models, there are answers to the specific challenges mountains face. Thus, adapted equipment and appropriate development, like transport infrastructure, landscaping, and protective works for inhabited places, are more than necessary for the maintenance and preservation of natural spaces in the mountains.

Exhibitors in Equipment for Development and Maintenance Offer Solutions on Various Topics:

• Development of gardens and green spaces, nurseries, landscapers, and landscape concepts
• Self-propelled devices, special vehicles, transporters
• Stone crushing
• Equipment for brush clearing
• Equipment and development for preventing natural hazards: land restoration, protection against avalanches, rockfalls, landslides, torrential floods
• Nets for stone and avalanche protection
• Construction equipment for mountain public works
• Agricultural equipment for mountain areas
• Forestry equipment for mountain areas
• Bank protection
• Reseeding, regeneration, soil rehabilitation
• Special works in difficult access areas