Road Removal Bibliography

Bagley, S. 1998. The road-ripper's guide to wildland road removal. Missoula, MT: Wildlands CPR. 41p. Available online at:http://www.wildlandscpr.org/road-rippers-guide-wildland-road-removal

Bergeron, K.D. 2003. The effects of an organic soil amendment on native plant establishment and physical soil properties on an obliterated forest road. M.S. thesis. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. 103p.

Bloom, A.L. 1998. An assessment of road removal and erosion control treatment effectiveness: a comparison of 1997 storm erosion response between treated and untreated roads in Redwood Creek Basin, northwestern alifornia. M.S. thesis. Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University. 150p.

Bradley, K. 1997. An evaluation of two techniques for the utilization of logging residues: organic mulch for abandoned road revegetation and accelerated decomposition in small chipped piles. M.S. thesis. Missoula, MT: University of Montana. 58p.

Brown, T.M. 2002. Short-term total suspended-solid concentrations resulting from stream crossing obliteration in the Clearwater National Forest, Idaho. M.S. thesis. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. 107p.

Burke, A., and J. Cloete. 2004. Restoring tire tracks: Lessons form the southern Namib desert. Ecological Restoration. 22(4):269-274.

Cloyd, C., and K. Musser. 1997. Effectiveness of road stabilization. In: Plumley, H. (Ed.). Assessment of the effects of the 1996 flood on the Siuslaw National Forest. Corvallis, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Siuslaw National Forest. pp 19-23.

Cotts, N.R., E.F. Redente, and R. Schiller. 1991. Restoration methods for abandoned roads at lower elevations in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Arid Soils Research and Rehabilitation 5: 235-249.

Davis, S. 1990. Effectiveness of a winged subsoiler in ameliorating a compacted clayey forest soil. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 5: 138-139.

Elseroad, A.C., P.Z. Fulé, and W.W. Covington. 2003. Forest road revegetation: effects of seeding and soil amendments. Ecological Restoration. 21(3):180-185.

Harr, R.D., and R.A. Nichols. 1993. Stabilizing forest roads to help restore fish habitats: a northwest Washington example. Fisheries 18(4): 18-22.

Havlick, D.G. 2002. No Place Distant - Roads and Motorized Recreation on America's Public Lands. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Hektner, M.M., and L.J. Reed. 1991. Revegetation and watershed rehabilitation in Redwood National Park. Oakland, CA: Proceedings of the Society for Ecological Restoration and Management Annual Meeting, Revised 1991. 9p.

Hickenbottom, J.A. 2000. A comparative analysis of surface erosion and water runoff from existing and recontoured Forest Service roads: O'Brien Creek Watershed Lolo National Forest, Montana. M.S. thesis. Missoula, MT: University of Montana. 178p.

Ihara, D. M., S.C. Hackett, and J.J. Manning. 2003. Reinvestment in Jobs, Communities and Forests: The Benefits and Costs of a National Program for Road Removal on U.S. Forest Service Lands, A Preliminary Analysis.

Arcata, CA: The Center for Environmental Economic Development. 82p. Available online at: http://www.wildlandscpr.org/files/uploads/PDFs/NFSRoadRmoval.pdf

Klein, R.D. 1987. Stream channel adjustments following logging road removal in Redwood National Park. Arcata, CA: Redwood National Park Watershed Rehabilitation Technical Report Number 23. 38p.

Kolka, R., and M. Smidt. 2001. Revisiting forest road retirement. Water Resources Impact 3(3): 15-16.

Luce, C.H. 2002. Hydrological processes and pathways affected by forest roads: what do we still need to learn? Hydrological Processes 16: 2901-2904.]

Luce, C.H., B.E. Rieman, J.B. Dunham, J.L. Clayton, J.G. King, and T.A. Black. 2001. Incorporating aquatic ecology into decisions on prioritization of road decommissioning. Water Resources Impact 3(3): 8-14.

Luce, C.H. 1997. Effectiveness of road ripping in restoring infiltration capacity of forest roads. Restoration Ecology 5(3): 265-275

Madej, M.A., B. Barr, T. Curren, A. Bloom, and G. Gibbs. 2001. Effectiveness of road restoration in reducing sediment loads. Final Report to U.S. Geological Survey Redwood Field Station. 72p. Available online at: http://www.werc.usgs.gov/redwood/project-doc.pdf

Madej, M.A. 2001. Erosion and sediment delivery following removal of forest roads. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26:175-190. Available online at: http://www.werc.usgs.gov/redwood/esplroads.pdf

Maynard, A.A., and D.E. Hill. 1992. Vegetative stabilization of logging roads and skid trails. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 9(4): 153-157.

McClelland, D.E., R.B. Foltz, C.M. Falter, W.D. Wilson, T. Cundy, R.L. Schuster, J. Saurbier, C. Rabe, and R. Heinemann. 1997. Relative effects on a low-volume road system of landslides resulting from episodic storms in northern Idaho. Transportation Research Record 2(1652): 235-243. Available online at: http://forest.moscowfsl.wsu.edu/4702/reports/slides%5Ftrb1652.pdf

McNabb, D.H. 1994. Tillage of compacted haul roads and landings in the boreal forests of Alberta, Canada. Forest Ecology Management 66: 179-194.

Merrill, B.R., and E. Casaday. 2001a. Field techniques for forest and range road removal. Published by California State Parks, North Coast Redwoods District. 44 pp. Available online at: http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/939/files/Field%20Techniques%20For%20Road%20Removal%20App.pdf

Merrill, B.R. and E. Casaday, 2001b. Best management practices: full road recontouring, partial road recontouring, road-stream crossing removal, and road-to-trail conversion. Eureka, CA: California State Parks, North Coast Redwoods District, Roads Trails and Resources Maintenance Section. 23 pp. Available online at:
http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/939/files/Partial%20Road%20Recontour.pdf http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/939/files/Stream%20Crossing%20Removal.pdf

Nelson, J.K. 2003. Natural revegetation of abandoned roads at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site. Golden, Colorado. Proceedings if the 15th Annual Conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration International, November 19-23, 2003, Austin, TX.

Schaffer, Ryan. 2003. National Forest Service Road Decommissioning: an attempt to read through the numbers. Missoula, MT: Wildlands CPR.20 pp. Available online at: http://www.wildlandscpr.org/files/uploads/PDFs/FSDecom.pdf

Stonesifer, A. and F. McGowan. 1999. 1999 Clearwater National Forest watershed restoration monitoring results (road obliteration). Orofino, ID: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Clearwater National Forest. 26p.

Switalski, TA, JA Bissonette, TH DeLuca, CH Luce, MA and Madej. 2003. Wildland road removal: research needs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, August 24-29, Lake Placid, NY. 642-646. http://www.itre.ncsu.edu/cte/icoet/downloads/03SustainableSystems.pdf (Scroll down to page 27 of the pdf to read this article.)

Switalski, T. A., et al. 2003. Benefits and Impacts of Road Removal. Frontiers in Ecology; 2004 2(1):21-28. Available online at: http://www.wildlandscpr.org/benefits-impacts-road-removal

USDA Forest Service. 2003. Road decommissioning monitoring report 2002. Orofino, ID: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Clearwater National Forest. 12p.

Weaver, W.E., and D.K. Hagans. 1999. Storm-proofing forest roads. In: Sessions, J.C. and Chungs, W.C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the International Mountain Logging and 10th Pacific Northwest Skyline Symposium. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Department of Forest Engineering and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations.

Wildlands CPR. 2003. Investing in Communities, Investing in the Land. Missoula, MT: Wildlands CPR. 16p. Available online at: http://www.wildlandscpr.org/files/uploads/PDFs/neweconomicsreport.pdf

Wright, D.L., and R.E. Blaser. 1981. Establishment of vegetation on graded road cuts as influenced by topsoiling and tillage. Soil Science Society of America Journal 45: 419-422.