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Increase resilience where roads and streams interact

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Approach

Increase resilience where roads and streams interact.

Tactics

  • Adapt the design standards where future rain-on-snow events are expected.
  • Develop risk assessment for road infrastructure.
  • Perform road blading/grading activities during periods when natural moisture conditions are optimum, and use water trucks as needed to supplement.

Sensitivity

Strategy

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J.; Little, N.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change and Rocky Mountain ecosystems. Advances in Global Change Research, Volume 63. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

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Relevant Region

Northern Plains
Northwest
Southeast
Southern Plains
Southwest