OREGON FOREST PRACTICES SEMINARS
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2009 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Lane County Fairgrounds
1:30 - 3:30 pm

"Road Use in Wet Conditions: Mitigating Tactics", Randy Silbernagel, Forest Engineer, Freres Lumber Co., Inc.Êof Lyons, OR; and Paul Clements,ÊStewardship Forester with Oregon Dept. of Forestry, in Veneta, OR will address how to keep forest roads in good shape during use with forest operations, such as logging, roading, log haul, equipment moves, landings, slash, site prep, and reforestation. They will emphasize methods that prevent muddy water delivery from roads to streams. They will talk about the contractor's role in the road upkeep during timber operations.

Randy Silbernagel is the Forest Engineer for Freres Lumber Co., Inc. in Lyons, Oregon. After graduating from Oregon St. University in 1982 with a BS in Forest Engineering, he went to work for Freres Lumber as a choker setter on their road construction crew. From 1983-1986, he worked as a forester in contract administration and quality control. Randy then moved into his present position, where he is responsible for road construction, road maintenance, and engineering work for company timberlands and government timber sales.

Randy has been active representing the industry as a member of the Northwest Oregon Regional Forest Practices Committee since 1998. He has also served on Oregon Dept. of Forestry's Headquarters Services Budget Committee, ODF's Fire Program Review Committee, and on two Forest Protective Association boards. He resides in Albany, Oregon with his wife and has two grown sons. They enjoy skiing, traveling, and sports.

Paul Clements is a Stewardship Forester with Oregon Dept. of Forestry (ODF), Western Lane District in Veneta. Since 1998, Paul has worked with forestland owners, contract loggers and road contractors. As a stewardship forester, he encourages operations and methods that comply Oregon's Forest Practices Rules and fire prevention regulations. Paul has been a great motivator, successful at helping operators and landowners want to protect forest resources during harvesting and reforestation projects. Before moving to Oregon, he worked in private and public sector employment in Virginia, Alaska and Washington.

Paul graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), in Blacksburg, VA (1978), with a Bachelors of Science degree in Forestry.

Loggers often inherit roads to access the contract logging units that may not hold-up to log haul use in wet conditions. Or maybe that summer job on a dirt road gets hit with early fall rains, before the logging job is completed. And at higher elevations, winter logging is faced with snow plowing and warm temperature break-ups. When roads get wet-and before roads get wet-loggers must employ the right mitigating tactics to prevent a road's muddy water from reaching streams. Randy and Paul will talk about good ways to keep logging roads in good shape during log haul and logging work.

These fellas will tell us about methods that work, what to do with roads before and when it rains, what amount of muddy water delivered to fish streams does not comply with forest practices rules (FP), options to divert muddy road water into the forest instead of streams. Does hauling ever have to stop if a road is too muddy? Just what is the logger's role in keeping a road in good shape during logging and log haul?

"Building Roads Right and Keeping Roads Well Maintained" Jerry Workman, Forest Engineer, Weyerhaeuser Co., Inc.Êof Lebanon, OR; and John Seward,-Geotechnical Specialist, Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Roseburg, OR will focus on forest road designing/building/maintaining/opening old roads/vacating roads-to prevent muddy water delivery to streams. This 1-hour presentation will focus on what to do with roads before and after a forest operation happens, including the landowner's role versus the contractor's role in the road upkeep.

For the past sixteen years, two of those being an internship, Jerry Workman has worked as a Forest Engineer in Oregon's Cascade forestlands on the Snow Peak Tree Farm-first for Willamette Industries, Inc., and now Weyerhaeuser Company. He can honestly say that he enjoy what he does and most of all he enjoys all of the people he has been able to work with over the years.

Jerry grew up in Cottage Grove, Oregon and graduated from Cottage Grove High School in 1984. He attended Ricks College in Rexburg, ID. After earning an Associates Degree in Natural Sciences from Ricks College in 1989, he transferred to Oregon St. University. In 1995, Jerry graduated from Oregon St. University with a Bachelors Degree in Forest Engineering.

John is a 29-year employee with Oregon Dept of Forestry (ODF), and is currently Southern Oregon Area Geotechnical Specialist, based in Roseburg. He works primarily with industry and agency foresters and engineers, to design forest road and harvest operations that comply with Oregon's Forest Practices Rules. His areas of interest include slope stability, road drainage, stream crossings, landslides, sediment prevention, road maintenance issues, and road design.

John is a Licensed Professional Engineer, and a member of the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineers & Land Surveyors. He has college degrees from University of Washington ('85) and Michigan St. University ('79).

This program will address considerations for both building and maintaining forest roads that won't deliver muddy water to streams. Today's forest road drainage must be disconnected from the stream network. There's a special emphasis on installing cross drains (culverts or dips) that put ditch water into the forest floor, rather than into the creek channel. Most of this road work has to be done prior to logging-and often has to be re-installed after logging is done. And older roads re-opened for current logging often require reconstruction of the drainage and rocking to meet today's water protection and fish standards.

Come hear about good road construction practices, FP rule considerations, road location and design, fish passage culverts, cross-drains, quality rock, spot rocking, dirt surface designs, spur construction practices, landing construction, and vacating or shutting roads after harvest. Just what is the landowner's role in providing a road that is usable for logging?