Natural reserve fund of the western part of the North Pokuttya highland: structure and problems and prospects of optimization

Objective. Analyze the structure and features of nature reserve fund within western part North Pokut highland find out problems prospects for its optimization. Methods. Field, analysis, processing stock materials environmental services, remote sensing methods, cartographic. Result. The Pokuttya forms one regional landscape park, 15 reserves, 37 natural monuments, 12 protected tracts, three arboretums five parks-monuments garden park art. largest in area is Dniester RLP (19,556 hectares), which accounts 96% total NPF region. A large number valuable objects: caves, rocks, ledges, karst funnels abysses, springs are located outside RLP. Suggestions optimizing protection objects that need to be preserved. Valuable form geological monuments karst-speleological reserves their further preservation, as abysses funnels, occasionally at foot rocks become places accumulation household waste local population. This leads loss value object, pollution environment, deterioration ecological condition territory. Conclusions. We propose create a speleological preservation fields vicinity Isakiv. As monument nature, it necessary protect ("vertebrae") cave "Pokutyanka" with length about 935 m. It hydrological preserve high flow sources, waterfalls on travertine rocks. They concentrated along slopes Dniester.