Road Construction and Maintenance. Roads on lands owned in fee by Green Diamond are constructed most commonly by felling and yarding timber along a predetermined road alignment that has been designated on the ground. This activity is followed by excavating or filling hillslope areas, using tractors or excavators. Road construction also commonly involves construction of watercourse crossings which use culverts, bridges, and occasionally fords. Roads also include vehicle turnouts and log landings, which are wide spots capable of being used as destinations of yarded logs as well as locations for loading logs onto trucks. Road construction may also involve the surfacing of soil roads with rock, lignin, pavement, or other surface treatments approved by NMFS and USFWS. Road maintenance commonly includes surface grading, clearing bank slumps, repairing slumping or sliding fills, clearing ditches, repairing or replacing culverts and bridges, adding surface material, dust abatement, and installing or replacing of surface drainage structures. Road maintenance for fire prevention, public access, and timber management may include mechanical control of roadside vegetation. Mechanical control may include grading, hand cutting or pulling, use of a "brush buster"-type mechanical device, burning, steaming, other experimental methods, etc.
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Sources: Aquatic Habitat Conservation Plan and Candidate Conservation Agreement With Assurances, Aquatic Habitat Conservation Plan and Candidate Conservation Agreement With Assurances