reduce short and long-term transport; if necessary to environmental impacts, minimize ecological impacts, habitat fragmentation, soil access is restricted on roads not and water disturbance and immediately necessary for cumulative adverse effects, management purposes; posted while allowing for customary or monitored enforcement. uses and use rights. This includes: Examples for evaluating access to all roads and adequacy of the transportation trails (temporary and system may include but are not permanent), including limited to: roads constructed on recreational trails, and slopes in excess of 60% are off-road travel, is made with full bench cuts or controlled, as possible, minimal side cast; for to minimize ecological decommissioned roads, bridges impacts; and culverts are removed, road density is water bars are installed; slopes minimized; are recontoured or erosion is minimized; revegetated, and ecologically sediment discharge to functional drainage patterns are streams is minimized; established; landings are there is free upstream located on ecologically suitable and downstream sites and the size is minimized passage for aquatic and the number of landings is organisms; optimized to minimize overall impacts of disturbance to the site; landings transportation systems are seeded, mulched, or on wildlife habitat and covered with slash after use; migration corridors are Riparian Management Zone minimized; crossings are kept to a area converted to minimum; stream crossings are landings and skid trails is installed at an angle that causes minimized; least ecological disturbance; habitat fragmentation is water diversion structures are minimized; used according to locally unneeded roads are applicable guidelines. closed and rehabilitated. As part of watershed assessments, habitats for salmonids and threatened and endangered aquatic species are identified. If shown to be necessary, road density is reduced in such habitats and/or mitigated within the watershed. Cooperative transportation planning with agencies, such as watershed management
reduce short and long-term environmental impacts, habitat fragmentation, soil and water disturbance and cumulative adverse effects, while allowing for customary uses and use rights. This includes: access to all roads and trails (temporary and permanent), including recreational trails, and off-road travel, is controlled, as possible, to minimize ecological impacts; road density is minimized; erosion is minimized; sediment discharge to streams is minimized; there is free upstream and downstream passage for aquatic organisms; impacts of transportation systems on wildlife habitat and migration corridors are minimized; area converted to landings and skid trails is minimized; habitat fragmentation is minimized; unneeded roads are closed and rehabilitated. transport; if necessary to minimize ecological impacts, access is restricted on roads not immediately necessary for management purposes; posted or monitored enforcement. Examples for evaluating adequacy of the transportation system may include but are not limited to: roads constructed on slopes in excess of 60% are made with full bench cuts or minimal side cast; for decommissioned roads, bridges and culverts are removed, water bars are installed; slopes are recontoured or revegetated, and ecologically functional drainage patterns are established; landings are located on ecologically suitable sites and the size is minimized and the number of landings is optimized to minimize overall disturbance to the site; landings are seeded, mulched, or covered with slash after use; Riparian Management Zone crossings are kept to a minimum; stream crossings are installed at an angle that causes least ecological disturbance; water diversion structures are used according to locally applicable guidelines. As part of watershed assessments, habitats for salmonids and threatened and endangered aquatic species are identified. If shown to be necessary, road density is reduced in such habitats and/or mitigated within the watershed. Cooperative transportation planning with agencies, such as watershed management
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