Legacy Road Funding: A briefing by USFS Region 6 for the Washington Watershed Restoration Initiative

Region 6 of the Forest Service shared their plans for restoring salmon habitat and clean water that has been impaired by deteriorating and failing roads pummelled by storms in Washington state. Some part of the $39mm appropriation approved by Congress in late December 2007 is expected to go towards restoring some of these road-scarred areas. That appropriation supports the Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Act championed by Rep. Norm Dicks (WA).

See the related resource, Olympic National Forest Storm '07: Damage Assessment & Recovery, for pictures documenting the extent of the damage from storms over December 2-4, 2007.