quality. While some were enacted to protect forest and riparian areas, most cover
proper road construction techniques, significantly reducing the major source of
sedimentation in forested streams. Regulations specifying the location and
steepness of roads, the size and location of culverts, and road construction and
surfacing specifications are designed to reduce or eliminate the delivery of sediment
to the streams. Regulations governing the use of harvesting systems reduce the
amount of road building and surface erosion.
standards. Our foresters use cable yarding systems and state-of-the- art
mechanical harvest and forwarding systems to reduce the amount of road building
needed to harvest our timber. We restrict road access during the off- season and
seed the road surface with grasses to reduce surface erosion.
