We have developed a number of typical hillslope input files to accompany this release that describe forest road and harvest area conditions. The files and draft documentation are available from us. The 95.7 release includes the Watershed Version. We are currently carrying out a sensitivity study with this version. We have modeled a road prism with an eroding cutslope, an eroding ditch, a culvert, and erosion or deposition in the draw below the culvert.
All components appear to work relatively well except the culvert routines.
The developers have been informed of these problems, and are addressing our concerns. We will shortly begin to evaluate the ability of this version to model large forested watersheds. We led a workshop in the R1 Engineering Training Academy with about 20 participants in April, 1996. We targeted the workshop around demonstrating a range of files we have developed to model typical conditions encountered on roads and in forested areas. The participants were keen on the potential of the model, but were concerned about the complexity of the interface and the input required to run the model.