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Join the teleconference to learn about the updated Sequoia National Forest Travel Analysis Process and share public feedback. Understand the science-based Travel Analysis Process and its role in sustainable road management. Get insights on the Travel Analysis Report and the key factors influencing the process.

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  1. Thanks for joining us. We’ll be starting soon. • To join the teleconference, dial 1-888-858-2144, passcode 7996857# • To download handouts: • Click the Handouts button at the top of the screen, right hand side. • The Handouts button looks like this: • To ask a question: • Click the ‘Q&A’ tab at the top of the screen, type your question in the dialog box, then click ‘Ask’. • If you need to provide feedback during the presentation, please click on the drop-down arrow next to the Feedback tool.

  2. Sequoia National Forest Travel Analysis Process, Subpart A Updated process and Public Feedback Opportunity

  3. Travel Analysis Process Team Maria Ulloa, Forest Program Lead Core Team: • Marianne Emmendorfer, team leader • Marcos Rios, Engineering • Cherie Klein, Mapping and GIS Extended Team: • Steven Ray, Forest Engineer • Karen Miller, Forest Heritage Resource Program Manager • Linn Gassaway, North Zone Archaeologist (Cultural Resources Data Steward) • Fletcher Linton, Forest Botanist

  4. Travel Analysis Process (TAP) The travel analysis process (TAP) is science-based and will inform future travel-management decisions that move administrative units toward the minimum road system (MRS). The TAP considers ecological, social, and economic impacts. The TAP must be documented in a Travel Analysis Report (TAR), which includes: • Maps displaying all system roads that shows those roads which will potentially remain and those that may be removed or changed in the future (under site-specific NEPA). • Information about the analysis as it relates to the criteria found in 36 CFR 212.5(b)(1).

  5. Travel Analysis Process Goal: Management and sustainability of a road system that minimizes adverse environmental impacts by assuring roads are in locations only where they are necessary to meet access needs, and can be maintained within budget constraints.

  6. Key Factors regarding Travel Analysis Process, Subpart A: • In Subpart A, use of motorized trails is only included in the recreation access criteria. Travel Analysis of motorized trails occurs in Subparts B and C. • Subpart A is intended to complement, rather than replace, other planning processes. • The Travel Analysis Report does notinclude a decision under NEPA, instead, it informs future proposed actions regarding the National Forest road system.

  7. Sequoia Travel Analysis Procedure • Implement the 2005 Travel Management Rule; • Use the Region 5 Travel Analysis Process, Subpart A Guidebook (November 2012); • Update criteria and analysis from 2003 Sequoia National Forest Road Analysis Process (March 2012); and • Identify opportunities to have a properly sized road system for Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument.

  8. Sequoia Road Analysis Process (RAP) Sequoia National Forest personnel conducted a RAP in 2003 in accordance with FSM 7712, which: • Evaluated the maintenance level 1 through 5 roads, and considered non-system roads (i.e. county, state and private routes) in the assessment of benefit, risk and opportunities. • Maps and spreadsheets displaying all the system roads and their associated risks and benefits. • Information about the analysis as it relates to the criteria found in Forest Service Manual 7700.

  9. Comparison of Road Analysis and Travel Analysis Processes

  10. Sequoia Forest TAP - Aquatic Risk

  11. Terrestrial Risk

  12. Access

  13. Social

  14. A Note about Composite Ratings A composite rating of low, moderate and high was assigned to each road based on combining values of the risk or benefit factors. A cumulative score was given from a sum total of all the risk or benefit factors. For example, the TAP aquatic risk composite adds the three factors for a composite range of 3 to 12, which were then added to the composite for terrestrial risks (5-15) for a total risk composite of 8 to 27. This composite was rated: Low=8-13, Moderate=14-20, or High=21-27

  15. Composites (continued) Similarly, on the benefits side: Access ratings were summed to give a range of 5-21, and Social ratings were summed to give range of 2-6. The total benefit composite for the TAP is: Low=21-27, Moderate=14-20, or High=7-13 NOTE: The ratings for risk and benefit are flipped numerically and by color. The bottom line for the person who just glances through is: large numbers (red color) are “high risk or low use” and low numbers (green color) are “low risk or high use”.

  16. Updating the Road System The 2003 RAP considered 1,621 miles of road, and theTAP considers 1,646 miles of road in the Sequoia National Forest designated transportation system. This includes roads designated as “closed”. The additional mileage is due to: • Corrections to road mileage from old cartographic features to surveyed data (i.e. GPS) or current imagery, • Adding existing routes to the designated transportation system (i.e. campgrounds around Lake Isabella).

  17. Corrected Road Route Examples

  18. Analysis Conducted to Date • Each road was analyzed using the risk and benefit factors. • Criteria where ratings are assigned through GIS analysis were updated in the spreadsheet. • Where roads needed a non-GIS update (generally the access criteria) the TAP team reviewed both the map and spreadsheet to determine whether to keep the existing rating, or update it based on the criteria description. • When manually updating non-GIS criteria, the team erred on the side of maintaining access.

  19. Which roads were analyzed?

  20. Example of Current Mapped Ratings Current Opportunities Current Risk Current Benefit

  21. Sequoia TAP Opportunity Categories Matrix Once roads are sorted into these nine rating pair categories, further screening of individual ratings could be done to further refine opportunities and priorities.

  22. How You can Participate Though the TAP core team assigned ratings for the access factors, we need you to review and suggest changes to specific factors: • Private and Non-recreation Public • Public Recreation • Lifestyles, Attitudes, Beliefs and Values We also need your review for typos or other errors.

  23. How You can Participate (continued) Go to the website: http://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/sequoia/TAP • Review the maps and spreadsheets for those roads you’re interested in; • Download the Feedback Form, fill it in, and email it to: comments-pacificsouthwest-sequoia@fs.fed.us with Subject: Travel Analysis Process;or • Mail it to the address listed on the form. All Feedback is Due by September 20, 2013

  24. With your help we can be strategic in how and which roads are maintained into the future.

  25. For More Information Contact: Marianne Emmendorfer, TAP team leader 35860 Kings Canyon Road Dunlap, CA 93621 mmemmendorfer@fs.fed.us 559-338-2251 extension 313 Website: www.fs.usda.gov/goto/sequoia/TAP

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