Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 19 ForA)

¹ The se­cur­ing of haz­ard areas in­cludes:

a.

sil­vi­cul­tur­al meas­ures;

b.

struc­tur­al meas­ures for the pre­ven­tion of dam­age due to ava­lanches, as well as, in ex­cep­tion­al cases, the erec­tion of in­stall­a­tions for pre­vent­ive ava­lanche re­lease;

c.

ac­com­pa­ny­ing meas­ures in tor­rents chan­nels which are linked to forest con­ser­va­tion (tor­rent con­trol works in forests);

d.

land­slide and gully con­trol struc­tures, the cor­res­pond­ing drain­age works and erosion pro­tec­tion;

e.

rock­fall and rock ava­lanche con­trol struc­tures, re­ten­tion struc­tures, as well as, in ex­cep­tion­al cases, the pre­vent­ive re­lease of ma­ter­i­al at risk of fall­ing;

f.

the re­mov­al to a safe loc­a­tion of build­ings and in­stall­a­tions at risk.

² The works shall if pos­sible be com­bined with bio­lo­gic­al en­gin­eer­ing and sil­vi­cul­tur­al meas­ures.

³ The can­tons shall en­sure that plan­ning is in­teg­rated; in par­tic­u­lar, the plan­ning shall bal­ance the in­terests of forest man­age­ment, nature and land­scape pro­tec­tion, hy­draul­ic en­gin­eer­ing, ag­ri­cul­ture and spa­tial plan­ning.