The National Forests offer hundreds of miles of scenic roads for the pubic to view the outdoors and to access many of their favorite places in the mountains. Settlers built many of the roads in the 1800’s as access routes for wagons and horses. The Forest Service is challenged to redesign, reconstruct, and maintain roads in order to meet public access requirements and to manage a healthy forest. Because funds are limited, the agency must prioritize its road work. Coweeta Hydrologic Lab sediment research on forest roads is working to 1) provide an assessment of sediment production and delivery from roads in the Conasauga Watershed, 2) quantify effectiveness of road restoration for reducing sedimentation at local and watershed scales and 3) provide tools for locating and prioritizing high hazard areas and evaluating future sediment production and delivery. The Ranger Districts are working to reconstruct and maintain roads and trails that are considered sediment hot spots.
Clicking on any of the three areas of the map with yellow dots will take you to a detailed area map with specific Road and Trail Management issue locations.
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