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Biodegradable roads

Journal of Ecosystems and Management

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Title Biodegradable roads
 
Creator Lyons, C. Kevin
Day, Ken
 
Subject Alex Fraser Research Forest; all-weather roads; in-block roads; mulched wood
 
Description This project assessed whether mulching windrows of waste wood from right-of-way logging could produce an all-weather road surface for in-block roads. Three in-block spur roads in the Alex Fraser Research Forest at Williams Lake, B.C., were divided into three 50-m sections with: (1) waste wood collected from a 40 m right-of-way, (2) waste wood collected from a 20 m right-of-way, and (3) no waste wood. A gravel truck was loaded to produce drive axle loads similar to a loaded logging truck and was used in the cyclic loading of the test road. The mulched wood roads clearly out-performed the soil roads. Failure occurred in the mulched wood roads at points of localized rutting in weak spots within the mulched layer. In an operational setting, the weak spots could easily be filled by hand or with a skidder blade.
 
Publisher Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing Press
 
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Date 2008-02-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jem-online.org/index.php/jem/article/view/385
 
Source Journal of Ecosystems and Management; Vol 9, No 1 (2008)
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jem-online.org/index.php/jem/article/view/385/300