Forest road definition

Forest road means ways, lanes, roads, or driveways on forest land used since 1974 for forest practices. "Forest road" does not include skid trails, highways, or local government roads except where the local governmental entity is a forest landowner. For road maintenance and abandonment planning purposes only, "forest road" does not include forest roads used exclusively for residential access located on a small forest landowner's forest land.

Forest road means a hard surfaced road, gravel or dirt road, or other route capable of travel by a 2-wheel drive, 4-wheel conventional vehicle designed for road use. Forest road does not include a street, county road, or highway.

Forest road means a hard surfaced road, gravel or dirt road, or other route capable of travel by a 2-wheel drive, 4-wheel conventional vehicle designed for highway use, except an interstate, state, or county highway.

Examples of Forest road in a sentence

• For public road authorities, use Forest road agreements to establish maintenance responsibilities and to accomplish maintenance in the most efficient manner.

• Forest road BMPs are on the ground activities and structures that, in most cases, aim to prevent discharges of sediment from roads to streams.

• When transferring jurisdiction and maintenance responsibility for an NFS road to a local public road authority, specifically enumerate the authority and responsibility of the local public road authority for controlling traffic and managing public safety in the easement or cooperative Forest road agreement which transfers jurisdiction.

• Forest road agreements do not change jurisdiction over a forest transportation facility.

• Ensuring operation and maintenance needs, and rehabilitation or replacement plans identified on the inspection reports, are included in the Forest road maintenance and management plans for bridges under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service (FSM 7732.1).

More Definitions of Forest road

Forest road means a road (other than a public road) that serves a forest;

Forest road means ways, lanes, roads, or driveways on forest land used since 1974 for forest practices or forest management activities such as fire control. "Forest roads" does not include skid trails, highways, or county roads except where the county is a forest landowner or operator. "Forest road," as it applies to road maintenance and abandonment planning for small forest landowners, means a road or road segment that crosses forest lands owned by the small forest landowner, but excludes portions of access roads to residen- tial home sites not used as a part of a current forest practice involving harvest or salvage of trees.

Forest road means ways, lanes, roads, or driveways on forest land used since 1974 for forest practices. "Forest road" does not in-

Forest road means any county or public road, or part thereof, outside the cor- porate limits of a city, which is within or extends into or toward a mountainous or timbered area, and which is under the con- trol and supervision of a county court of this state.

Forest road means any road or thoroughfare which may be declared by the Minister responsible for forests, under this Act, and includes all bridges, ferries, drains, dams, embankments, causeways, fences and ditches belonging or appertaining to a forest road, and such land adjoining any forest road as may be reserved for its protection by Order of the Minister;

Forest road means a road into a state forest or a local authority forest including bridges and culverts along it;

Forest road means a road located within a designated forest area.