All members and partners of the KäseStrasse contribute to preserving the traditional agricultural landscape of the Bregenz Forest.

[6] For producing the dairy-products, the local farmers drove livestock between the valleys in winter, the medium-high pastures in spring and high-pastures in summer.

[6] When Austria joined the European Union in 1995, the Bregenz Forest received funds from EU programs, for example LEADER II (today LEADER+), for the development of the economy in rural areas.

It was recognised that the Bregenz Forest is "an impressive landscape on the north side of the Alps" that has "largely maintained its traditional farming structure."

The area was also integrated with its cheese varieties in 2005 as a region "Bregenzerwälder Alpkäse" (Bregenz Forest alp-cheese) and Bergkäse (mountain-cheese) in the project "Genussregion Österreich", which is an organisation that promotes traditional food and food-products of Austria.