Designing, Improving & Maintaining Rural Roads
Jamestown Community Hall, 18250 Main Street Jamestown, CA
Workshop Objectives:
- Provide landowners and land managers with information on the design and functions of low standard roads used for agriculture, resource management, residential access and recreation
- Provide tools for evaluating the conditions and environmental impacts of existing roads
- Introduce landowners to practices that may be used to improve existing roads and eliminate problems
- Outline procedures for maintaining roads to reduce potential for failure or impaired functioning especially in the aftermath of the Rim Fire
Agenda
8:00-8:30 Registration and Introduction
8:30-9:15 Fundamentals of Rural Roads—Richard Harris, Ph.D., Northern California Society of American Foresters
9:15-10:00 Geology and Roads—Michael Fuller, California Geological Survey
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:00 Stream Crossings—Pete Cafferata, CALFIRE
11:00-11:45 Road Inventory and Treatments—Richard Harris
11:45-12:10 Sources of Technical and Financial Assistance—TBD, USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
12:10-1:00 Lunch and Travel to Field Sites
1:00-4:30 Field Trip to View Management Approaches (weather permitting)
4:30 Adjourn
Sponsored By:
Northern California Society of American Foresters, UC Cooperative Extension, Central Sierra, California Geological Survey, CALFIRE, USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
Partial Funding Provided By:
US Forest Service, State and Private Forestry
Registration:
Registration is required. There is no fee. Please register here. Please bring a lunch and wear clothes appropriate to the weather. The field trip will be held if weather permits. Otherwise, it will be re-scheduled for the spring. Light refreshments will be served at the break. Transportation to field sites will be by means of car pooling from the workshop site.
For More Information:
Contact Richard Harris, (707) 685-5508 or Susie Kocher (530) 542-2571, sdkocher@ucanr.edu