The present-day cultural landscape of the Myjava Hills is the result of relatively short, approximately six centuries lasting anthropic transformations of natural, forested landscape. Major stages of anthropic interventions relate to the foundation of medieval villages, to the kopanitse colonization and to the collectivization in farming. However, the biggest land use changes relate to approx. 250 years long kopanitse colonization. In the course of his activity man undertook direct interventions in certain natural landscape elements in this territory (forest cleaning and creation of fields were most radical), which resulted in the transformation of the primary landscape. The deforestation and agricultural cultivation on extensive areas caused an enormous intensification of originally natural landscape-forming processes. From the above mentioned processes the most harmful ones were the geomorphic ones, above all the gully erosion and areal water erosion. The results of the operation of intensified geomorphic processes are the secondary landscape transformations. These represent a significantly more negative impact for landscape elements such as the soil and relief, than the primary landscape changes.