Improving Road Systems Workshop

This past week, Wildlands CPR assisted The Nature Conservancy in hosting a workshop entitled, “Improving road systems in the context of watershed restoration” in Astoria, OR.  The workshop was attended by a diverse group of about 25 watershed restoration specialists from around the region.  Representatives from the Forest Service, Oregon Department of Forestry, Washington Department of Natural Resources, NGOs, and private consultants exchanged information about planning, prioritizing, and implementing road system treatments including road decommissioning.  

The workshop was followed by a fieldtrip to TNC’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve.  Here they are testing the effectiveness of different thinning and road decommissioning techniques in a systematic research experiment.  Learn more about this project here: http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/ellsworth.creek

The workshop was filmed and will be available online.  Also, Liane Davis from TNC is drafting a white paper summarizing the presentations and content of group discussions.   We will post links to these resources on our website as they become available.