Blue River Road Assessment Chronology

9/16/11

Prepared by: John Cissel

3/12/98: WNF small group - review of current road analyses, needs & opportunities

3/19/98:  Blue River staff - agreement to undertake process, roles, timelines

4/24/98: Cissel & Wemple - conceptual framework for analysis, key analysis factors

4/27/98: scientists/BR staff (Corvallis)- analysis factors, research opportunities

5/21/98:  scientists/BR staff and aquatic team (HJA) - information sources, analytical framework, data

5/28/98: Cissel - synthesis of analysis factors

6/3/98: Bennett - listing of risk factors and rating system for field variables

7/1-10/31/98: Bennett and helpers - collection of field data

11/1/98-11/30/99: Turner & Gabriel, Blue River staff - spatial and attribute database cleanup and entry; road rating spreadsheet created and completed

11/1/98: Blue River staff - draft human use rating factors

11/12/98: Engineers & Cissel - agreement on data management

7/19/99: Cissel - road management objectives categories

9/20-11/20/99: Jones, Swanson, Cissel & OSU graduate class - concept paper

11/18/99: Blue River aquatic team, Swanson, Sarr - watershed process equations

12/5/99: Cissel - road spreadsheet rating key

12/6/99: WNF small group - reviewed Blue River and Middle Fork processes

12/9/99: Blue River staff - review and refinement

12/17/99: Blue River aquatic team - subdrainage ranking

1/4/00: Turner - subdrainage spreadsheet completed

1/19/00: Blue River staff - approved ranking process, ready to test & apply

2/3/00: Blue River aquatic team, Bennett - validated aquatic ranking results

2/11/00: Cissel, Bennett, Swanson - presented results to road restoration workshop

2/16/00:  Blue River staff - reviewed results, decided to use aquatic rankings to close level 2 roads shown as high aquatic risks

6/1/11:  Due to reductions in funding, road restoration has been significantly diminished.  This process will be considered as a tool when the WNF begins its minimum roads analysis in FY2012