Runoff, sediment loss and water quality from forest roads in a southeast Queensland coastal plain Pinus plantation

Forsyth, Adam; Bubb, Ken; Cox, Malcolm

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2005.09.018

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“…Anthropogenic factors related to road construction and management are more readily manipulated. The literature provides considerable insight regarding erosion and sedimentation consequences of road location [9][10][11], road grade [12][13][14], road density [15], road area [16,17], road infiltration rates [18], road surfacing conditions [19,20], traffic levels [5], expected road duration of use [21], road templates including cut and fill slopes [22,23], adequacy of drainage structures [24], and road connectivity to streams [25,26]. These considerations capture the challenges addressed by forest road and skid trail best management practices (BMPs).…”

Section: Forest Roads Erosion and Sedimentmentioning

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Estimating Costs and Effectiveness of Upgrades in Forestry Best Management Practices for Stream Crossings

Nolan

Aust

Barrett

et al. 2015

Water

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Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) are used for protection of water quality at forest stream crossings, yet effects and costs for gradients of BMPs are not well documented. We evaluated forty-two truck road and skid trail stream crossings using three surrogates of BMP adequacy: (1) potential erosion rates for stream crossing approaches; (2) adequacy of stream crossing BMPs; and (3) overall BMP rating (BMP´, BMP-standard, and BMP+). Subsequently, BMP upgrades were recommended for enhancing BMP´or BMP-standard stream crossings. Costs for BMP upgrades were estimated using an existing road and skid trail cost method. The majority of truck road stream crossings were culverts, while skid trail stream crossings were primarily portable bridges. Potential erosion estimates, BMP audit scores, and BMP ratings all indicated that skid crossings have lower BMP implementation than truck road crossings. BMP improvements commonly identified for skid trail and truck crossings included addition of cover and water control structures. Improved BMPs at skid trail crossings were less expensive than those at truck road crossings. Current BMP guidelines provide economical and effective techniques for reducing erosion, and BMP upgrades have the potential to reduce erosion rates to similar levels found in undisturbed forests.

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Section: Forest Roads Erosion and Sedimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Estimating Costs and Effectiveness of Upgrades in Forestry Best Management Practices for Stream Crossings

Nolan

Aust

Barrett

et al. 2015

Water

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“…Forest roads are globally recognized as a main source of sediment yield and pollution of off-site water (Arneaz 2004;Forsyth 2006;Fu 2010), in addition to direct loss of habitat Assoc. prof. dr. Erhan Çalişkan Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Forestry, 61080, Trabzon-Turkey, email: caliskan@ktu.edu.tr (Geneletti 2003), and indirect loss of habitat (by the fragmentation of an ecosystem into smaller and more isolated patches) (Chomitz 1996).…”

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Planning of environmentally sound forest road route using GIS & S-MCDM

Çalışkan

2017

Šumar. list (Online)

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SummaryForest roads are basic precondition for the sustainable management of forest resources. These roads entail a complex engineering effort because they can cause substantial environmental damage to forests and include a highcost construction. Therefore, the design of forest road routes should have taken into account in terms of environmental impacts. In order to do this, the Geographical Information System (GIS) with Spatial Multi Criteria Decision Making (S-MCDM) techniques is a useful tool for creating a model. One such S-MCDM is the Spatialintegrated Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (S-TOPSIS). In this study, S-TOPSIS was applied to integrate environmental impacts into the design of a forest road route. Using the current forest road route (CFOR) and the GIS-based S-TOPSIS method, an environmentally sound forest road route (ESFOR) was determined according to environmental criteria. Five environmental criteria (avalanche, river, soil, geology and slope) were used for analysis to compare with. The results obtained from the analyses, are compared to the current forest road route. The CFOR 15.385 km in length, while the ESFOR found by S-TOPSIS was 14.385 km. If the differences in length between two roads multiplied by the width of the road (1km X 5m), the result would be 0.5 ha. The results showed that this methodology can provide environmentally sound road network also help to design quickly and less costly. These results suggest that spatial multi criteria decision making method can be more accurate in terms of environmentally sensitive forest road designing in mountainous area.

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“…Studies concerning road construction (Ghajar et al 2013), maintenance (Coulter et al 2006) and environmental concerns affecting the placement of roads in forests (Grayson et al 1993;Rummer et al 1997;Forsyth et al 2006;Jordán and Martínez-Zavala 2008. ) show big variety.…”

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Comparison of High and Low Density Airborne Lidar Data for Forest Road Quality Assessment

Kiss

Malinen

Tokola

2016

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Good quality forest roads are important for forest management. Airborne laser scanning data can help create automatized road quality detection, thus avoiding field visits. Two different pulse density datasets have been used to assess road quality: high-density airborne laser scanning data from Kiihtelysvaara and low-density data from Tuusniemi, Finland. The field inventory mainly focused on the surface wear condition, structural condition, flatness, road side vegetation and drying of the road. Observations were divided into poor, satisfactory and good categories based on the current Finnish quality standards used for forest roads. Digital Elevation Models were derived from the laser point cloud, and indices were calculated to determine road quality. The calculated indices assessed the topographic differences on the road surface and road sides. The topographic position index works well in flat terrain only, while the standardized elevation index described the road surface better if the differences are bigger. Both indices require at least a 1 metre resolution. High-density data is necessary for analysis of the road surface, and the indices relate mostly to the surface wear and flatness. The classification was more precise (31-92%) than on low-density data (25-40%). However, ditch detection and classification can be carried out using the sparse dataset as well (with a success rate of 69%). The use of airborne laser scanning data can provide quality information on forest roads.

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Runoff, sediment loss and water quality from forest roads in a southeast Queensland coastal plain Pinus plantation

Cited by 64 publications

References 24 publications

Estimating Costs and Effectiveness of Upgrades in Forestry Best Management Practices for Stream Crossings

Estimating Costs and Effectiveness of Upgrades in Forestry Best Management Practices for Stream Crossings

Planning of environmentally sound forest road route using GIS & S-MCDM

Comparison of High and Low Density Airborne Lidar Data for Forest Road Quality Assessment

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