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The Baekdudaegan range, which includes eight national parks, forms the ecological axis of the Korean Peninsula and has been designated and protected as the Baekdudaegan Protected Area to preserve its ecological significance. Despite these conservation efforts, restoration projects targeting the damaged sites of the Baekdudaegan range are inefficient due to the lack of diagnostic evaluation and reference ecosystem information. This study conducted a survey of damaged sites in the Mt. Deogyusan section, in line with the Korea Forest Service’s 2nd Baekdudaegan Protection Basic Plan. As a result of orthophoto analysis, 1,240 patches of damaged sites were identified, covering 326.9 ha. Based on this analysis, a total of 86 surveys were conducted on 29 patches of damaged sites and reference ecosystems. The surveyed damaged sites were categorized into eight types: bare land, arable land, mountaineering trail, burial ground, cutover, project area, forest trail, and grasslands, and analyzed the actual conditions of each type. Furthermore, we compared community similarities between damaged sites and reference ecosystems for each damage type, and tree species with high coverage values in the reference ecosystems were proposed as restoration species. This study’s findings are expected to provide fundamental data for setting goals and directions for the ecological restoration of damaged sites in the Mt. Deogyusan section of the Baekdudaegan range.