Possibilities of shaping the forest landscape along the roads

Paper presents the methodological assumptions of assessment of the attractiveness of the forest landscape in the vicinity of the municipal road Kup − Radomierowice (SW Poland). Landscape attractiveness was determined by the means of diversity of landscape units expressed by quotient of the sum of structural and stand units and the length of the landscape unit. The results allow determining the possibilities of landscape formation along the roads. Decisions about shaping of the road vicinity should be based not on the assessing the visual attractiveness of the landscape, but rather on detailed analysis of scenic variables and especially spatial relationships that occur among them