Road locations for the proposed transportation 

 plan needs to be analyzed for long-term and 

 future timber management of the Beaver Lake 

 area. The locations of the proposed roads in 

 Alternative A provides for 95% to 97% of the 

 Beaver Lake Project area to be logged with 

 conventional groimd-based harvest systems, 

 and 3% to 5% of the area could be harvested 

 only with helicopters. Helicopter yarding 

 distances to log deck landings would be less 

 than .25 mile and would not cross any lakes. 



In the future, there is a potential need for 

 temporary roads; these would be built to 

 minimal standards and would generally be 

 less than .25 mile long. These temporary 

 roads, if needed, would access landings off of 

 the main road and, when possible, use older 

 existing roads. Approximately 1 mile of 

 temporary road could be built in the future for 

 harvesting activities west of Little Beaver Lake 

 and around Dollar Lake. 



ACTION ALTERNATIVE B 



The road location and design would result in a 

 maintainable road system that could be up- 

 graded to higher standards. Approximately 

 4.2 miles of road could be upgraded to a 

 primary or secondary road to improve safe, 

 year-round access to the southern and western 

 portions of the project area. These roads 

 include South Beaver Road, North Beaver 

 Road to the junction with North Murray Road, 

 and North Murray Road through the first 

 segment of new construction. Location, 

 design, and the potential upgraded standards 

 of roads could accommodate year-round uses, 

 such as recreation, private land access, and 

 commercial timber-product hauling, and may 

 meet the minimum subdivision requirements 

 for hmited subdivisions. oQi/« 



The road standards would generally have 

 grades 8% or less, with a few pitches of 9% to 

 10%. With some exceptions, the curve radius 

 would generally be 65' or larger. These curves 

 would acconimodate lowboy trailers hauling 

 road building, logging, and fire equipment to 

 the south end of Beaver Lake and north into 

 Section 18 on North Murray Road. 



Road locations for the proposed ti'ansportation 

 plan need to be analyzed for long-term and 

 future timber management of the Beaver Lake 

 area. The locations of the proposed roads in 

 Alternative A provides for 90% to 95% of the 

 Beaver Lake Project area to be logged with 

 conventional ground-based harvest systems, 

 and 5% to 10% of the area could be harvested 

 only with helicopters. Helicopter yarding 

 distances to log deck landings on available 

 Spur 16 and North Beaver Road, west of the 

 lease lots on Beaver Lake, would be up to 1 

 mile. Aerial yarding operations could require 

 flights over portions of Little Beaver Lake. 



In the future, there is a potential need for 

 temporary roads; these would be built to 

 minimal standards. Approximately 1.3 miles 

 of road would need to be built for future 

 harvesting activities to access timber stands 

 west and north of Little Beaver. 



ECONOMICS 



The basic method for the economic analysis is 

 the nondiscounted cash flow. The cash-flow 

 analysis tries to estimate the flow of revenues 

 and costs from the different treatments that are 

 related only to this project. No future 

 activities are included because projecting 

 treatments into the future is uncertain due to 

 changes in policies, markets, personnel, and 

 random natural events. The analysis estimates 

 the cash flow from timber harvesting and 

 nonadministrative costs for the alternatives 

 considered. DNRC does not have a formal 

 accounting system to track costs for individual 

 projects from start to finish. An annual cash- 

 flow analysis is conducted of DNRC's forest- 

 product sales program. The revenue-to-cost 

 ratios are measure of the program's 

 economical efficiency. For the last 2 years 

 (fiscal years 1996 and 1997) for every $1.00 

 DNRC spent on costs, the Northwestern Land 

 Office has generated $1.51 in revenue. 



The results of this analysis appear in Table IV-8 

 through Table IV-12. 



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