Forest road design manual

This guidebook provides forest road practitioners with advice on road design and field practices to assist them to achieve the statutory and regulatory requirements in the. Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, the. Forest Road Regulation, and the. Operational Planning Regulation. ESA for logging truck round trip = + = A ha area of forest with m³/ha average yield is to be transported on a new forest road over a period of three years, following which the area will be replanted for the next rotation. The new road’s pavement design ESA is: Total volume of harvest: ha x tonne/ha = , tonnes. FOREST SERVICE ROAD MAINTENANCE LEVELS (5 through 1) Road Maintenance Level 5 Road maintenance level 5 is defined in the FSH , sec. as: “Assigned to roads that provide a high degree of user comfort and convenience. These roads are normally double lane, paved facilities. Some may be aggregate surfaced and dust abated.

The Howard County Design Manuals contain engineering design requirements, specifications, and details. For questions about the Howard County Design Manuals, please contact the Department of Planning and Zoning, Development Engineering Division Engineer-of-the-Week at () Title. It describes how to plan and design a stable road or road network in mountainous lands or gentle valley bottoms, and avoid many of the common pitfalls and environmental/pollution problems for which rural and forest roads are noted. Nearly everything discussed in this manual is aimed at producing efficient, low-cost, low-. Active Design Manual Revisions Project Delivery Memos / Design Bulletin / Individual Chapters / Revision History The Design Manual provides policies, procedures, and methods for developing and documenting the design of improvements to the transportation network in Washington. It has been developed for state facilities and may not be appropriate for all county roads or city streets that are not.

The Manual deals with specific aspects to be considered when planning, surveying and constructing forest roads in mountainous terrain. Particular attention is drawn to the principles of general planning of opening up mountain forest resources with reference to integrated planning of road networks. FOREST SERVICE ROAD MAINTENANCE LEVELS (5 through 1) Road Maintenance Level 5 Road maintenance level 5 is defined in the FSH , sec. as: “Assigned to roads that provide a high degree of user comfort and convenience. These roads are normally double lane, paved facilities. Some may be aggregate surfaced and dust abated. Forest Road Manual Guidelines for the design, construction and management of forest roads Tom Ryan1, Henry Phillips2, James Ramsay3 and John Dempsey4 1 Tom Ryan, Coillte, Hynes Building, Merchants Road, Galway. Email: www.doorway.ru@www.doorway.ru 2 Henry Phillips, Forestry Consultant, Cloot na Bare, Rathonoragh, Sligo. Email: hphillip@www.doorway.ru