Salix Erosion Control and Stream Restoration

Whiskeytown Logging Road Removal Project
Watershed Restoration and Logging Road
Removal in the Paige Bar Demonstration Watershed:

Whiskeytown National Recreation Area - Redding CA

In 1996, the National Park Service and a Northern California community college initiated a demonstration watershed restoration project. The project was coordinated by John McCullah, President of Salix Applied Earthcare and instructor of the Shasta College Watershed Restoration Practicum. The following web pages will take you step by step through the process of developing and implementing a logging road decommissioning project.

Whiskeytown Project Home Page

The Cooperative Agreement

Why Remove Logging Roads?

Developing an Erosion Inventory for Road Decommissioning

Outsloping Peltier Valley Road

The Sediment Pond

Logging Camp Road Removal

Landing Removal

Conclusion