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Road Management Objectives 

The road management objectives (RMOs) presented in this appendix 

establishes the intended purpose and display design maintenance and 

operation criteria (as per FSH 7709.55) for each National Forest 

System road associated with timber harvest activities for this project. 

The information on the RMO form is part of a permanent database that 

can be updated periodically as access needs, issues, and budgets 

change. Proposed new roads and existing roads with planned 

reconstruction or maintenance have a second section with site specific 

design criteria that will be used during design, construction, and initial 

monitoring of any road work proposed in this document. See Figure B2 for a map of the Kuiu Timber Sale Area showing existing road 

locations. 

The general design criteria provide various descriptions of the type of 

road and the intended purpose and future use of the road. From this 

information, the maintenance and operation criteria can be developed. 

This information is critical for determining whether a Corps of 

Engineer’s permit will be required for segments of road crossing 

wetlands. Roads built solely for silvicultural purposes do not require 

these permits. 

The maintenance criteria include a discussion of how the road is to be 

maintained, centering on three strategies: 

• Active: provide frequent cleanout of ditches and catch basins to 

assure controlled drainage. Control roadside brush to maintain 

sight distance. Grade as needed to maintain crown and running 

surface. 

• Storm Proof: provide water bars, rolling dips, out sloping, etc., to 

assure controlled runoff until any needed maintenance can be 

performed on the primary drainage system. Control roadside brush 

to maintain passage. 

• Storage: remove or bypass all drainage structures to restore 

natural drainage patterns, add water bars and revegetate as needed 

to control runoff. 

The active maintenance strategy is applied to roads open and 

maintained for travel by a prudent driver in a standard passenger car. 

User comfort and convenience are not considered priorities. These 

roads are assigned Maintenance Level 3. The active maintenance 

strategy will also at times be applied to roads intended only for use by 

high clearance vehicles, or Maintenance Level 2 roads. This will 

usually be the case when log haul is expected in the near future. 

An intermediate maintenance strategy is to storm proof, or stabilize 

the road, by providing roadway features such as drivable water bars 

Intended 

Purpose 

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General 

Design Criteria 

and Elements 

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and out sloping to control runoff in case the primary drainage system 

of culverts and ditches is overwhelmed during a storm event. Each 

culvert will be evaluated as to where the water would go if the culvert 

were to fail to carry the high flow. A water bar or out slope at this 

location will minimize the potential for erosion of long stretches of 

ditch line or roadway. This is intended to be the primary maintenance 

strategy applied to roads assigned Maintenance Level 2. 

Storage is intended to be the primary maintenance strategy on 

intermittent use roads during their closure cycle. Road storage is 

defined in FSH 5409.17 as “the process/action of closing a road to 

vehicle traffic and placing it in a condition that requires minimum 

maintenance to protect the environment and preserve the facility for 

future use.” In this strategy, the bridges and culverts on live streams 

are completely removed to restore natural drainage patterns. Cross 

drains and ditch relief culverts will be bypassed with deep water bars 

but may be left in place to minimize the cost of re-using these roads in 

the future. Roads in storage are left in a self-maintaining state in order 

to use more road maintenance funds on the open drivable roads on the 

island. Maintenance Level 1, closure and basic custodial maintenance, 

is assigned. 

The interdisciplinary team went through a process to define road 

management considerations, leading to a maintenance strategy to be 

applied to each road in the Kuiu Timber Sale Area. Figure B-2 shows 

the desired future condition of each road in the project area as a result 

of the process. The work needed to meet the objectives can be 

accomplished on the roads along the haul route in these timber sales. 

Work needed on other roads to meet the desired objective will be 

scheduled as funding allows. 

The operations criteria include a presentation of each of the five traffic 

management strategies identified in FSM 7731 (encourage, accept, 

discourage, prohibit, and eliminate) to be applied to different traffic 

classes on each road. The traffic management narrative describes what 

actions will be taken in order to apply each strategy. For example, if 

the strategy “eliminate” is prescribed for standard passenger and high 

clearance vehicles, the narrative describes the method to accomplish 

this, such as removal of stream crossing structures, gating, etc. 

The site-specific design criteria include road location objectives, 

wetland information, erosion control, proposed rock borrow sources, 

and all streams within the project area with proposed construction or 

rehabilitation of stream crossing structures. Site-specific design criteria 

for the proposed reconstruction of designated roads for this project 

include timing restrictions for construction activities (Table B-3). 

Operation 

Criteria 

Site-specific 

Design Criteria 
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Table B-3. Stream classes, species of concern, and construction 

timing windows for stream crossings on designated roads proposed 

for reconstruction 

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SPECIES OF 

CONCERN 

CONSTRUCTION 

TIMING WINDOW 

6417 0.119 II CT July 18 -- Aug 15 

6417 0.789 II DV No restriction 

6417 0.793 II DV No restriction 

6417 0.925 I SS, DV June 1 -- Sept 1 

6417 1.209 I SS, CT, DV July 18 -- Aug 15 

6417 1.456 I SH, PS, DV July 18 -- Aug 1 

6427 NONE NONE NONE No restriction 

46091 NONE NONE NONE No restriction 

46094 NONE NONE NONE No restriction 

6422 NONE NONE NONE No restriction 

6443 0.125 I SS June 1 -- Sept 1 

 

CT = cutthroat, DV = Dolly Varden, SS = silver salmon, SH = steelhead, 

PS = pink salmon 
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