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In December 2016, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) released travel analysis reports that assess existing road systems and identify opportunities to achieve a more sustainable system of roads for each national forest in the Pacific Northwest.

As part of a national travel management process, the Forest Service is working to achieve a financially and ecologically sustainable road system that meets access needs, limits environmental impacts, and is affordable.

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The reports will inform future decisions on where and how to invest limited resources on building new roads, managing current roads, or decommissioning old roads. In Washington and Oregon there are more than 90,000 miles of USFS roads. The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest alone has 7,948 miles of forest roads, while the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest has 2,440 miles.

The reports do not address how the Forest Service will maintain or mitigate the roads it wants to keep. In their report, the Forest Service determined that it needed almost 90 percent (79,000 miles) of its roads. This leaves as many as three-quarters (~68,000 miles) of forest roads across the region without funding for necessary maintenance.

Across the Pacific Northwest, extensive and poorly maintained forest roads, most hastily built by private companies during the logging and resource extraction heyday, are causing ecological harm to threatened fish and wildlife as well as dangerous conditions for motorists. In the case of MBSNF, nearly 41 percent of the forest road system is causing medium or high resource concerns.

Excessive forest roads and a lack of roadless habitat also harm Northwest wildlife species such as elk, which need undisturbed roadless areas for calving. When forest roads, bridges and culverts are washed out in storms or are poorly maintained, the resulting road conditions can also be dangerous for motorists, forest employees and emergency responders.

Through a variety of processes, national forests have worked closely with the public and stakeholder groups to collect information and feedback about social, economic, and ecological concerns and impacts around forest road systems.

Conservation Northwest is a member of the Washington Watershed Restoration Initiative, a coalition that helped lead the effort to establish federal policy that required these analyses in addition to Travel Plan Maps to clearly indicate where motorized use is allowed on each national forest. Additionally, this initiative helped to create the Legacy Roads and Trails Program aimed at directing federal funding towards urgently needed road decommissioning, road and trail repair and maintenance, and removal of fish passage barriers. This week Congress funded the Legacy Roads and Trails Program at $40 million in the final FY 2016 omnibus appropriations bill, ensuring that funding is there to meet the need for road restoration outlined by the Forest Service in these travel analyses.

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Forest Road 475-B...sounds like a place that's a bit off the beaten track doesn't it? Well, it is a bit but not as far as you might think. A grand total of 6.5-miles in length, 475-B connects U.S. Highway 276 near the Cradle of Forestry at its top end and Forest Road 475 just beyond the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education. Its a bumpy road, typically passable by the average vehicle but it can be washed out and rutted at times. If you can find it though, and you want to see a handful of waterfalls without too much effort, then F.R. 475-B is the road for you. In this album I'll be visiting five of the easier to reach cascades that are accessible from the road. To be sure there are many more if you are a hardcore waterfaller but these five, I can say with a good deal of certainty, are accessible to pretty much anyone who can handle walking two miles.

The waterfalls in question are, in no particular order: Slick Rock Falls, Discovery Falls, Log Hollow & Upper Log Hollow Falls, and Logging Road Falls. The first listed is only a few hundred foot walk while the remaining four are reached from the same access point and require about 2.5 miles of walking. As mentioned Slick Rock is the shortest walk. The parking area for it is on a wide bend in the road about 1.1 miles above the south end of 475-B at F.R. 475, or about 5.4 miles down 475-B from its upper end at U.S. 276. A trail sign and kiosk mark the trailhead and its a short but steep 100-yard walk to the falls. Simple. Back at the car you have to drive 3.8-miles farther up 475-B to another wide, sharp bend with a brown metal gate and large forest management sign on the outside of it. This parking area is 4.9 miles up from F.R. 475 or 1.6 miles down from US 276. Beyond the metal gate an old forest road continues into the woods. This old road provides access either directly, or to spur trails, to the remaining four waterfalls.

Starting down the road you'll notice the grades are very easy to manage. This will continue as far as the road goes but the spur trails can be a bit steeper. Only about a quarter mile in from the gate you'll reach a very out-of-place concrete bridge, just prior to which you should notice a trail heading uphill into the woods. This is the quarter mile spur trail to Discovery Falls. This is the steepest path you'll need to ascend but, trust me, its worth it. Back on the gated forest road you'll reach another bridge, this one wooden, about a half mile from the trailhead. Logging Road Falls can be seen just upstream and a short spur trail to it enters the woods just beyond the bridge. From the end of the spur to Log Hollow you'll see a slightly fainter path ascending the hillside to the left of the falls. The is the short (0.1-mile), steep path up to Upper Log Hollow Falls. It's another one worth the bit of extra effort to see. From Log Hollow Falls the old forest road continues. After another half-mile of walking requiring a moderate climb and descent through a recently cut swath of forest you'll reach a broad grassy curve in the road, directly upstream of which is Logging Road Falls. This falls would be more impressive were it not for its extremely narrow channel which, by mid summer, is all but covered up by foliage blocking any view of the 70-foot falls. After a good rain in the winter might be the best time to see Logging Road, other wise only include it on this hike if you just feel like spending an extra mile strolling through the woods. After visiting Logging Road one simply retraces their steps for the mile back to the trailhead.

In fact, the monkeys leave the forest en masse each morning in pursuit of food, scarfing up any edible spiritual offerings left on the sidewalk, foraging above and below the abundant Ubud cafes, and snatching at any dangling bags carried in the unsuspecting hands of tourists.

At dawn, the monkeys pour out of the forest at one specific crossroads on Monkey Forest Road. And at dusk, they pour back in. I witnessed this spectacle once at sunset and watched with awe as dozens of monkeys ran en masse across Monkey Forest Road.

Starting Thursday, August 3, staff will be working intermittently on road and campsite improvements on the western loops of the Walter Stark Horse Campground. Heavy machinery may be operating. The eastern loop will not be affected by this work.

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While forest roads are important to forest managers in terms of facilitating the exploitation of wood and timber, their role is far more multifunctional. They permit access to emergency services in the case of forest fires as well as acting as fire breaks, enhance biodiversity, and provide access to the public to enjoy recreational activities. Detailed maps of forest roads are an essential tool for better and more timely forest management and automatic/semi-automatic tools allow not only the creation of forest road databases, but also enable these to be updated. In Spain, LiDAR data for the entire national territory is freely available, and the capture of higher density data is planned in the next few years. As such, the development of a forest road detection methodology based on LiDAR data would allow maps of all forest roads to be developed and regularly updated. The general objective of this work was to establish a low density LiDAR data-based methodology for the semi-automatic detection of the centerline of forest roads on steep terrain with various types of canopy cover. Intensity and slope images were generated using the currently available LiDAR data of the study area (0.5 points m-2). Two image classification approaches were evaluated: pixel-based and object-oriented classification (OBIA). The LiDAR-derived centerlines obtained with the two approaches were compared with the real centerlines which had previously been digitized in the field. The road width, type of surface and type of vegetation cover were also recorded. The effectiveness of the two approaches was evaluated through three quality indicators: correctness, completeness and quality. In addition, the accuracy of the LiDAR-derived centerlines was also evaluated by combining GIS analysis and statistical methods. The pixel-based approach obtained higher values than OBIA for two of the three quality measures (correctness: 93% compared to 90%; and quality: 60% compared to 56%) as well as in terms of positional accuracy ( 5.5 m vs. 6.8 for OBIA). The results obtained in this study demonstrate that producing road maps is among the most valuable and easily attainable products of LiDAR data analysis. 2351a5e196