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A NEW
DEVELOPMENT
IN
CLEARING
ROADS
Tom L. Condos
Civil Engineer
Tahoe National
Forest
An innovative
product is now on the market that can cut clearing
costs and timber sale road construction
time.
The product is a
shovel.
It
is
front-end
currently
being used by a
special
power
local road construction
on
the
Tahoe
National
Forest.
company
cater-pillar
equip-ment
consists of a faller a D-7
typical
clearing operation
a choke setter and two laborers.
The people and
cut fall and remove the right-of-way timber.
They remove
the stumps and slash piling it at regular intervals alongside the
road and transport it with a loader and truck or burn it in
piles on the road.
The
Corpora-tion
The new method still requires the faller the caterpillar and
choke setter for right-of-way timber however a power shovel is
Model 225 manufactured
also needed.
by the Caterpillar
is an example of this type of power
shovel.
kilo-grams
The power shovel bucket has been removed and replaced with a clam
shell fig. 1.
Both the front and rear of the clam shell are
activated
The flotation-type
track has a
fig. 2.
hydraulically
of
6
inch
contact
0.42
pressure
ground
pounds per square
the width of the tracks
is 10 feet 3.05
per centimeter
meters which minimizes ground disturbance.
The
to
machine
40
can be used to pioneer new roads with side slopes up
One way to overcome the greater slopes is to use
caterpillar to pioneer the road for the machine
percent.
a medium-sized
fig. 3.
The clam can remove stumps
power shovel clear a road
in
inches
centimeters
diameter.
For larger stumps
61.0
is
utilized.
with
a
The
machine
works like
a caterpillar
stringer
weeds
from
the
It
tree
someone pulling
garden.
fig.
grabs a
stump or brush fig. 5 with the clam shell and pulls it out of
shakes the dirt off the roots and loads the debris
the ground.
It
It
can dig out larger stumps but the
into a dump truck fig. 6.
inefficient.
becomes
operation
How
does
up to
a
24
4
1
Figure 1CaterpiZZar
power shovel with clam
sheZZ attachment.
Figure 2-HydraulicaZZy
activated
clam sheZZ
2
Figure 3--Pioneered
road with cleared
side slopes.
Figure 4oCZam shell
removing a tree
3
Figure
5.--CZam sheZZ
grubbing
brush.
it
6--Power shovel
Figure
into
4
a
dump
loading
truck.
debris
distur-bance
7
in-stallation
This type of clearing operation
is much cleaner and faster than a
medium-sized caterpillar with a brushrake.
There is less
to the soil and when the road has been completed fig.
bucket
for the
the clam can be replaced with the conventional
of culverts.
Culvert installation time can be cut in
half by using the machines size and versatility.
esti-mated
in-vestment
Figure
7--Finishedroad cleared
by
shell attachment.
Model
225
with
clam
The cost to rent a Caterpillar Model 225 is $200000 per month
based upon 220 hours of operation.
Thecost of diesel fuel
at five gallons per hour and the $800000 cost of the clam
for a total operational
shell attachment
must be considered
The average time required to clear a 14-foot 4.27-meter timber
6 1/2
road with a 30 percent side slope is approximately
minutes
the
load.
Minimizing
slack
time
is
equipments
per dump-truck
number
of
the
when
determining
trucks
and
the
haul
paramount
distance
for each project.
5
The following
compares
National
Forest
1.
$1407.55
per
acre
2.
the
two
methods
of
clearing
the
Tahoe
typical clearing method is $3478.00 per acre
per hectare while the cost for Model 225 is $2050
$829.64 per hectare.
The
The
average
rate with
heavy
brush
91.44 meters per day for the typical
1000 feet 304.8 meters per day for Model
feet
on
and medium pole
clearing method
is
300
and
dis-advantages
225.
rates and the initial cost of clams are economic
of this type of equipment
the physical disadvantages
are its instability on steep ground while pioneering
roads and
the dust it creates while loading trucks.
High
rental
It is apparent
that the economic benefits offered by expeditious
road clearing and minimal environmental effects
make this special
front-end shovel a viable asset to Forest Service road building
operations.
6
PRACTICAL
SOLAR
APPLICATIONS
James M. Kocer P.
Resident
Engineer
R-3
E.
de-signing
Two buildings at the Albuquerque Tree Nursery
heating systems that should be of interest to
heating systems.
have practical solar
others who are
em-ployee
The first system completed in April 1979
cones in the seed extraction
The
process.
constructed
in the
summer of 1980 will be
lunchroom facility.
used to heat the
second system to be
used to heat an
is
Both
concepts are similar and use the sloped roof of the building
solar collector.
The collector consists of a bottom course
of standard metal roofing and a 4-inch 10.16-centimeter
air
space with a 5-ounce
0.14-kilogram corrugated fiberglass top
course fig.
1.
as
the
pur-lins.
The fiberglass panels are supported
by 4-inch
10.16-centimeter
webbed holostuds on 4-foot 1.22-meter centers.
The metal panels
are also supported
on 4-foot 1.22-meter centers by cross
the metal panels there are 6 inches
Directly beneath
15.24
centimeters of batt fiberglass insulation with a vapor barrier.
The 6000-square-foot 557.45-square-meter
Extractory Building
are enclosed on the sides and top the south bottom line
panels
is open and screened.
The entrapped heated air is drawn up the
roof line then pulled down through five separate ductworks on the
north wall by
1/2-hp inline centrifugal fans.
The cone trays
are stacked 12 feet 3.66 meters high along the north wall and
the heated air is discharged
into the bottom tray.
Air flow is
assisted through the trays by exhaust fans located on the north
wall near the top of the trays.
The designer estimated a
differential of 35-40F 1.7-4.4C between ambient and
delivered air for the month of October.
A table of actual
is shown on page 9.
recordings
If temperatures are too
warm in excess of 110F 43.3C for pine the seeds will be
damaged or killed.
Therefore at the top of each ductwork
the
system has motorized dampers fig.
which are operated
by a
remote thermostat allowing ambient air to mix with heated air when
Because the system is rarely used during the summer
necessary.
months temperatures in the solar cap may build to over 150F
65.5C. Manual dampers and another thermostat for the existing
dampers are installed to allow the trapped heated air to escape.
1
temper-ature
differ-ential
2
7
Figure
l.--Solar
collector
on
sloped
-oof.
I
Figure
2.--Ductwork
with
8
motorized
dampers.
TEMPERATURE
READINGS
OF SEED
DATE
TIME
WEATHER
11/5/79
1400
clear
11/6/79
0840
1225
SYSTEM
CHUTE
MAIN
F
AMBIENT
AIR
84
61
58
75
45
60
58
53
45
clear
clear
clear
78
72
50
55
58
57
clear
clear
clear
46
44
52
60
82
78
64
55
1600
clear
clear
clear
1000
1230
1400
1600
clear
clear
clear
clear
85
50
83
78
62
60
60
1100
clear
clear
88
95
48
54
clear
clear
clear
clear
86
98
46
55
88
62
58
thin clouds
overcast
thick clouds
1535
thin clouds
direct sun
rain in a.m.
0850
11/7/79
HEATING
EXTRACTORY
56
no
11/14/79
1200
1400
1600
11/15/79
1010
1200
1400
1230
11/16/79
1400
12/5/79
12/6/79
1300
1000
1230
12/7/79
1440
1600
Air delivered
at
cone
81
77
60
60
57
58
trays.
differ-ences
The
employee
ti
system
is
lunchroom facility will be heated
flow diagram fig.
with
3
mechanical
using the same
two main
1.
The 3180-square-foot 295.45-square-meter
solar cap
enclosed on all sides returning air to the cap from inside the
building.
downline
The backup system involves electric
from the three 3/4-hp fans.
Region
Architectural
2.
5
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designed
9
both
heating
systems.
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SERVICE
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DEEP
ROCK
PIT
cool-ing
3.--Mechanical
DRY
flow
water
diagram
heater
10
solar heat
water
WELL
supply.
evaporating
RECENT
ACTIVITIES
IN
FOREST
TO
IMPROVE
SERVICE
OWNED
ENERGY
EFFICIENCY
BUILDINGS
AND
IN
RELATED
NEW
CONSTRUCTION
FACILITIES
George J. Lippert
Facilities Engineer WO
Re-gional
famil-iar
The
following
report was sent recently to all
Foresters and Directors for their information.
We are including
it here so you may also become
with energy conservation
efforts in new
Should you desire more information regarding
site conditions design parameters and costs
with the projects you should contact the Regional
Director of Engineering responsible
for that project.
construc-tions.
90-75
associ-ated
All new
Forest
Service buildings are being designed to ASHRAE
the most widely accepted
standard in the country for
energy efficient building design.
Building envelope
heating
ventilation and air conditioning energy efficiency standards are
Several units have been using this standard since
prescribed.
1975.
In many instances the
standards have been exceeded.
Standards
fol-lowing
BUILDING
AND
FACILITY
DESIGN
In addition
to this general treatment several projects
have had
unique energy conservation
design features incorporated.
The
list keyed C--completed UC--under construction
F--funded
or P--proposed indicates the current status of projects in this
category
Region
1
--Wise River Ranger
Montana.
Passive
UC
Office Beaverhead
solar collector
National
Forest
Trombe Wall concept.
--Spotted Bear Range Station
Flathead National
Forest
Montana.
Installation of 50kW water-driven
power
plant for entire administration
site to replace existing
diesel-powered generators.
UC
11
--Red River Ranger Station
Nez Perce National
Forest
Idaho.
Duplex employee residences
including energy
efficient
architectural interior design with
of south-facing
glass wood stoves masonry heat
and
insulation
levels.
storage
high
concentra-tion
F
expo-sure
--Belt Creek Work Center Lewis and Clark National
Forest
Montana.
Residence
of passive/active
solar design.
Building sited partly below grade with southwest
for solar passive heating.
Active
solar heating
for hot water and partial space proposed.
P
--Standard
units.
4-person Crew Quarters modules to
Uses active solar hot water heat.
--Region 1--Recreation.
a specific recreation
P
Solar-heated
site.
hot
P
water
12-person
shower
at
--Two projects are included in the Solar in Federal
Buildings Program which is listed separately in this
report.
Region
pas-sive
2
--Recreation
Toilet Buildings.
One hundred twenty-four
vault toilet buildings at various sites utilizing
solar ventilation
systems.
C
Region
3
--Seed Extractory Building Albuquerque Nursery Cibola
National
Passive solar collector
Forest New Mexico.
Blowers distribute
designed as a double roof system.
heated air for cone drying.
C
Albuquerque Nursery Cibola National
Same system as Seed Extractory
Building with exception of air returning to the solar
furnace auxilary heater.
cap and integral electric
--Commons
Building
Forest New Mexico.
UC
Region
5
Fire Station Los Padres National
Forest
Crew quarters with passive/active
solar
system utilizing black tile double roof system as
passive solar collector.
Gravity ventilation
and
earthen
berms are passive features
shutters
solar domestic hot water is an active
feature.
--Arroyo Seco
California.
circula-tion
P
12
Modoc
--Big Valley Ranger Station Office Addition
National
Forest California. Active solar collectors
to assist in the heating
of the existing building and
the addition.
Flat plate collectors used.
Funded
under DOE/ERDA
Demonstration
Program.
Fed-eral
C
--Two projects are included in the list of Solar in
is listed separately
Buildings Program which
this report.
Region
in
6
earth-en
Office Redmond Air Center Deschutes
National
Forest Oregon.
Passive solar heating through
Trombe Walls and thermal mass of building.
Solar
roof
reflectors/shutters
overhangs screens and
berms are also used.
--Dispatchers
P
--Medford Nursery Rouge River National
Forest Oregon.
Active
solar domestic hot water system.
UC
--Cone-Dryer/Seed
Extractory Dorena Seed Orchard Umpqua
National
Forest Oregon.
Passive solar collector
Blowers distribute
designed as a double roof system.
hot air to seed trays.
UC
--Dufer Ranger Office Addition
Mt. Hood National
Forest
Passive design to obtain partial solar gain
Oregon.
for heating and gravity ventilation
to assist existing
No thermal storage
heating and ventilation
systems.
YACC project.
provided.
P
sys-tems
--Solar Domestic Hot Water Systems Mt. Baker Snogualmie
National
Forest Washington.
solar assistance
Packaged
for existing domestic hot water systems.
Active
for installation at several locations on Forest.
P
Region
air-type
Na-tional
8
Ranger Office Jefferson National
Forest
Active solar space heating system using
Virginia.
flat plate solar collectors and salt storage.
--Newcastle
F
so-lar
Civilian Conservation
Schenck
Centers
Forests in North Carolina.
Hybrid active/
passive solar system using hot attic air collection
rock storage commonly referred to as the Clemson
attic design concept.
--Residence
UC
13
and
--Bathhouse
and Four-unit Flush Toilet Buildings Houston
Recreation
Flat
Area National Forests in Alabama.
solar
collectors
for
hot
water.
plate
Pas-sive
Ran-gers
Nation-al
heat-ing
em-ployed
UC
--Two-unit Vault Toilets Various
solar ventilation
system.
Locations
UC
in R-8.
--Combined
Research
Project Laboratory and District
Northeast
Office
Station and Daniel Boone
Active solar heating and
Forest Berea Kentucky.
boiler for backup
cooling system with wood-fired
and cooling.
Passive design
concepts are also
such as partial undergrounding and placement
and protection
of windows
to obtain winter solar gain
and a percentage
of summer solar gain.
UC
District Ranger Dwelling National
Forests
--Highlands
North Carolina.
Multifuel furnace heating system
which can use either wood or fuel oil.
in
C
Shop Lyndon B. Johnson Civilian Conservation
Multifuel
Centers National Forests in North Carolina.
--Welding
C
furnace heating
fuel oil.
system which
can use
either wood
or
Creek Civilian Conservation
Center
Cherokee National
Flat plate solar
Forest Tennessee.
collectors for hot water.
--Dormitory Jacobs
UC
Arkan-sas.
Ranger Office Ouachita National
Forest
will
collect
heat
Hybrid active/passive
system
and
store
it
in
salt
a
entering through clerestory
The system will also include passive
storage unit.
storage walls.
--Womble
P
Region
9
--Washburn Ranger Office Chequamegon
Wisconsin.
Solar hot water heating
--Murphysboro
Illinois.
utilizes a
--Saco Ranger
Hampshire.
Office.
National
system.
Forest
UC
Ranger Office Shawnee National
Forest
passive solar elements and
Incorporates
wood burning system.
supplemental
F
F
Office White
Design
Mountain National
Forest New
similar to the Murphysboro
concepts
14
incor-porate
sup-plemental
P
Civilian Conservation
--Administration Building Golconda
National
Illinois.
Will
Forest
Center Shawnee
utilize
solar
and
design concepts
passive
wood heating system.
Conserva-tion
P
Civilian
--Administration Building Blackwell
Center Nicolet National Forest Wisconsin.
as Golconda
Project.
Pacific
Same
Southwest
This is the
--Fresno Laboratory Fresno California.
first phase of combined passive/active
solar-assisted
Passive features include
heating and cooling system.
in the
solar thermal mass incorporated
courtyard patio
and
double roof
an
windowscreens
furniture
atrium
Funded
under
Grant.
system.
DOE/ERDA
C
The second phase is included in the Solar in Federal
Buildings Program listed separately in this report.
Northeast
--Berea
Project
Office.
Included
in R-8
report.
Southeast
Laboratory/Headquarters
Building
--Forestry Science
Southeast Forest Experiment
Station Asheville North
Carolina.
Included in the Solar in Federal Building
is listed separately in this report.
which
Program
ELECTRICAL
POWER
PHOTO VOLATAI CS
GENERATION FROM SOLAR
ENERGY
under the Federal Photovoltaics
Several projects have been.funded
Utilization Program
95-619.
Approximately $2.0 million has
PL
been provided to the Forest Service under Cycles
II and III of
in two more cycles
is planned.
the program.
Participation
I
Ninety-one projects in R-2 R-3
These range from small repeater
transmission.
Domestic power i.e.
lighting refrigeration etc. was included at sites
at or near a lookout tower.
co-located
--Telecommunications.
R-4 R-5 and R-8.
sites to microwave
15
--Water
and Wastewater
and R-4.
These
Ten projects in R-2
Pumping.
range from small wildlife water
pumps to major water sources for recreation
Three range water wells are included in this
R-3
guzzler
areas.
category.
camp-ground
--Domestic Power Supplies.
Eight projects including
lookout tower power supplies to YACC camps for
lighting boat ramps and parking lot security
R-3 has five projects that will be mounted
lights.
crew
trailers.
atop
--Ventilation
Systems.
Two hundred forty-six projects.
Solar-powered
ventilation
units will be installed
Service-wide.
These units are similar to approximately
ten units the San Dimas Equipment
Center
Development
has been testing.
The larger project
is to provide
further data on actual use and to demonstrate
the
of photovoltaic
for
systems
improving
in recreation
area toilet buildings.
via-bility
condi-tions
--Others.
Battery
chargers
for watershed
instruments.
Fed-era
men-tioned
SOLAR
BUILDINGS PROGRAM
DEMONSTRATIONS
IN FEDERAL
THERMAL
A decision
on six applications
submitted under DOEs Solar in
Building Program PL 95-619
should be received in February
1980.
Some applications
included completion of previously
projects.
Califor-nia.
solar-assis-ted
--Fresno Laboratory Pacific Southwest
Fresno
The request is for completion of the
heating and cooling system begun under DOE/ERDA
Demonstration
Grant.
Bernar-dino
domes-tic
--dig Bear Lake Visitor Information Center San
National
The request is for
Forest California.
hybrid solar system that includes passive ventilation
active
solar-assisted space heating/cooling
and
hot water.
a
Cali-fornia.
--Chilao Visitor Center Angeles National
Forest
This request is for a hybrid solar system
that includes passive ventilation active
and domestic hot water.
space heating/cooling
solar-assis-ted
16
Building
--Forestry Sciences Laboratory/Headquarters
Southeast Forest Experiment Station
Asheville North
Carolina.
T His request
of
is for installation
domestic
hot
water
and
space heating system
is
This
a new
construction
system.
project.
-a
solar-assisted
For-est
--Powell Ranger Station Office Clearwater National
Idaho.
This request is for installation of solar
for
a
solar-assisted air-to-air heat pump system
panels
in an existing office.
The original office
1977 was
with
mind.
in
future retrofitting
designed
instrumenta-tion
National
River Ranger Station Office Beaverhead
for
the
This project is
Forest Montana.
of passive solar collector
Trombe Wall.
--Wise
17
WASHINGTON
OFFICE
TECHNOLOGICAL
NEWS
IMPROVEMENTS
Harold L. Strickland
Assistant Director
A Look
Backwards--Forest
LOW-VOLUME
ROADS
Service
Impressions
SECOND
Adrian
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
PeZzner
Low-Volume
at-tended.
im-pression
Chief Materials
Engineer
The
Research Board held a major conference
Transportation
on
Roads August 20-23 1979.
Because of the importance
of
this conference
50 Forest Service transportation engineers
the Forest Service attendees
Following the conference
were surveyed by means of a questionnaire
to determine their
of the conference
and the conferences
overall relevance
to their work assignment.
atten-dance
per-cent
spe-cific
il-lustrate
confer-ence.
Forest Service attendees
had a positive attitude
this conference
and an overall feeling that their
was worthwhile.
Most of the engineers felt that 25-50
of the subject matter presented
at the conference
had
their
work.
to
application
However the attendees were
unable to quantify cost savings that might be achieved as a result
of something learned at the conference.
The narrative
comments
the
are
supplied by
respondents
particularly interesting and
a wide range of_opinions
and impressions of the
Generally the
toward
re-plies
We would like to thank those Forest
time to complete the questionnaire.
and the summary is presented
19
Service personnel who took the
We have summarized the
here for your information.
SUMMARY
OF REPLIES
FROM
SERVICE
QUESTIONNAIRE
ON
SECOND INTERNATIONAL
FOREST
ROADS
LOW-VOLUME
1.
I
a.
be
com-puter
consider
myself
to
A support specialist
involved in Forest Service
transportation
i.e. geotechnical
engineering
signs bridges
science
b.
CONFERENCE
etc..
main-tenance
An engineering manager working
full or part
transportation
engineering
i. e. Regional
Assistant Regional
Engineer preconstruction
time in
Engineer
or
engineer.
c.
Not
connected
engineering
in
in any direct way with
the Forest Service.
Support Specialist
Engineering Manager
14
24
in-cluding
Total
2.
I
at
a.
estimate
Questionnaires
that
the
direct
Received
costs
to
$
the Government
for my attendance
700.
b.
1000.
c.
1300.
d.
1600.
e.
2000.
$700-1600
700-1600
Support Specialist
Engineering Manager
My overall
follows
a.
38
travel per diem salary etc.
the conference
were
Range
3.
transportation
reaction
to
the
conference
Average
$1042
983
can be
summed up as
It was worthless boring
and had no connection
with my work.
only the very remotest connection
would have been better off by not attending.
20
or
I
I
confer-ence.
It
was a nice
but there was
b.
change from my regular
little of value for me
schedule
the
work
at
con-ference
im-portance
booster.
the
By attending
better
of
the
gained a
understanding
of my work in low-volume roads and a better
of the vital role played by low-volume
understanding
roads throughout the world.
was
It
c.
real morale
a
I
20
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57%
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g
r
w
12%
28 %
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2
2
1%
1%
A
B
A
C
C
Answer
Answer
4.
B
con-cerned
Insofar
as
I
technical
specific
found the
sessions
to my work are
applications
various papers presented
at the
I
attended to be relevant as follows
a.
Not
b.
No
c.
About
25
percent.
d.
About
33
percent.
e.
As much
f.
Considerably
at
all.
more than 10
as
50
percent.
percent.
greater
21
than
50
percent.
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10
10
8
8
U
N
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4
N
2
37%
33%
42%
14%
14%
C
LU
1%
A
16%
4
21%
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2
1%
I
B
C
D
E
A
F
1%
B
C
Answer
It
5.
has
been
have
months
2
since
I
the
the
conference.
Already
b.
Stored the conference
in my memory bank.
Perhaps
in the future
a situation
may arise to which I can
apply some of the knowledge
I gained
while attending
the meeting.
c.
Made definite plans to make use of
the information that was presented
d.
Already
I
conference.
pre-sented
used some of the
the conference.
some portion of
at the conference.
information
2-V
X10
m
10
and ideas
41%
ý
8
33%
8
50%
6
0
F
E
a.
forgotten
about
attended
at
r
D
Answer
25%
6
28%
4-
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al
21%
c
w
2
1%
A
4
B
C
A
D
Answer
22
B
C
Answer
D
6.
be-lieve
of something I learned at this conference
I
can make an improvement in the way I have been
I
estimate the
carrying out a particular
operation.
in
next
the
will be
5-year
period
potential savings
Because
I
because
did not
learn
useful.
a.
Nothing
b.
allow me
Nothing because what I did learn will
to do my job better
give me more alternatives
such
or
improve my analytical capabilities--but
improvements are not possible to quantify in terms of
I
1
2
3
cost
anything
savings.
c.
Less than $10000.
d.
Between
$10000-$50000.
e.
Between
$50000-$100000.
f.
Greater
than $100000.
g.
Considerable
but
I
cannot
estimate
the
savings.
20
18
66%
16
14
12
10
r
g
8
r
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10
42%
6
4
w
21%
A
B
C
D
20%
4
21%
14%
2
6
2
E
F
A
G
B
1%
1%
C
D
Answer
Answer
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1%
E
F
G
7.
I
received
a.
Took
the Proceedings
from this conference
home put away and will probably
which
never
look
I
at
again.
b.
Tried
c.
Scanned
or read a few of
I
am keeping my personal
intend to refer to it as
d.
Read
read and review for potential application
to
my work but I gave up.
There was either nothing
that applied to my work or those papers that did
apply were so technical or impractical that they were
not worth my time.
to
fu-ture.
the
more interesting papers.
and
copy of the Proceedings
the need arises in the
1
one or more papers in detail.
The papers
is
supports what I am doing now
causing me to consider changing my operations
to take
of what I have learned or
advantage
gives me
many ideas for future followup.
either
Read
will
e.
2
3
from cover to cover.
become my most useful
I
expect the
reference.
Proceedings
20
18
16
0
14
54%
12-45%
10-S.-57%
10
8-5
8
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W
6
28%
4
4
14%
2
2
A
B
6
C
D
A
E
Answer
B
C
Answer
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D
E
future involvement
Concerning
by the Forest
conferences
of this type I recommend
8.
Service
in
a.
Against any further involvement
whatsoever either in
assisting TRB plan the conference
or in allowing Forest
Service employees
to attend.
b.
Considerably reduced
attendance
by Forest Service
employees.
Require much stronger specific
for attendance
by Forest Service
attendees
and require attendees
to advise
their supervisors
what they learned at the conference
and how they
to apply it.
c.
That the Forest Service judge each conference
on its
I
own merits.
believe
the Forest Service involvement
in this conference
i.e. planning number and type
of personnel attending and postconference
of proceedings was the right response
for a
major conference
on a subject
area of considerable
to the Forest Service.
importance
in-tend
justifi-cations
distribu-tion
d.
an-nouncements
substantial
involvement i.e. more
about the conference
more Forest Service
authored papers more Forest Service attendees and
more postconference
followup.
Far more
20
18
79%
16-14-r
12-ro
S_
W
10
f
8
r
6
C1
71%
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2-U-3
r-
r
c
4-
4-
21%
16%
2
1%
A
B
C
A
D
Answer
1%
B
C
Answer
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D
9.
this conference
the benefits of attending
Evaluating
is
a
essentially
The benefits depend
subjective process.
on
--The
technical
--The meeting
quality
of
the
conference.
facilities.
--The
attitude
of the
attendee
toward
his work.
--The
attitude
of the
attendee
toward
conferences
and
meetings.
--The
quality of the published
coming from the meeting.
proceedings
and reports
recog-nize
--An individuals
at his
ability to look objectively
work decide where improvements are needed and
when a specific presentation
or report will or
will not be useful in making the needed improvements.
be-lieve
Insofar as this conference
is concerned
knowing what
know now about the conference
and the Proceedings
I
I
my attendance
a.
Was
not justified.
will be. worth
future.
any
I
the
doubt
cost
whether
either
the
benefits
now or
in
if
the
b.
Was probably justified.
It was a good conference
and I learned something useful.
I
hope to be able to
both now as well as in
apply some of this knowledge
the future.
c.
Was
I
definitely justified.
can now do some parts of
better
because
of
attendance.
my job
Furthermore
my
as a result of what I have learned
I
am now making or
plan to make changes that will have short-term and
the
costs of my
long-term benefits that far outweigh
attendance.
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14
54%
12
10
10
a
a
8
r
U
6
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4
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2
a.
CL
35%
42%
33%
8
6
4
21%
2
1%
A
A
C
B
Answer
10.
B
C
Answer
in-dividual
collec-tive
em-ployees.
Please
give us any comments you have regarding your
attendance
at this conference
and the
attendance
at this conference
by Forest Service
meet-ings
cooper-ative.
COMMENTS
Supervisors may have
if supervisors
session rather than
a
BY SUPPORT
SPECIALISTS
attitude toward
justifiably-negative
with plans for a training
are approached
another meeting they may be more
pre-sentations
The quality of the papers and applicability of the information
were much less than. at the first conference
I
hope that the
of future sessions will be on a higher level.
Forest Service participation
in this conference
was more low key
than in the first Low-Volume Road Conference
and this is good.
It seems that more interest needs to be generated
for county road
agencies to participate.
management
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or two from the Washington
should be sufficient.
The
to
road
roughness
Service
Office
people at the conference.
and one or two from each
One
Region
operating
costs as related
that
concepts
may warrant further
Service.
index and vehicle
maintenanceare interesting
examination
by the
Forest
many of us professional growth may tend to stagnate.
I
was gratified to be reawakened
to a larger world of
circumstances
being resolved in innovative
ways.
With
case
In
my
similar
Some of the papers presented
were too deep into research
it was
difficult
to determine if the
results were meaningful or could be
to field use.
adapted
The
who
most beneficial papers were those
actually use the technology.
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