Of all of those, the road maintenance part is what bugs most people. People who do not realize that the roads USED to be bladed because there was a timber sale on them. I've tried to point that out, but when folks hear it, they refuse to believe it, or I get a lecture on how logging is not needed to keep roads in good shape. I've pointed out that one of the reasons fires get so big is that there are fewer bodies/eyes in the woods, both logging and FS bodies. That too gets rude treatment. Or they start quoting statistics that tax money was used to maintain the roads to timber sales because the sales were below cost. The latter is not true on our productive, PNW lands. But the studies take into consideration the less productive areas.
Grants can be gotten to decommission roads. I am not sure if there are any for maintaining roads. Roads are considered by the 'ologist planners to be a bad thing. In fact, in order to get a timber sale through all the hoops, decommissioning old roads has to be done at some point, or the sale will be appealed because the road density is too much. That's why all the new roads built to access timber are now Temporary Roads. They may have some pretty complicated construction requirements, but they are temporary, by gosh! Unless things have changed, using timber dollars
(KV money) to decommission roads is illegal. Thus the grants or separate budget.
I think we are doomed.:bang::bang::bang:
