Quiz 1: Environmental Impacts of Roads

 

1. Name an environmental impact of road network shown in the first picture and explain the importance.
2. In what ways do roads impact water quality?
3. What are two ways that roads create social impacts (may be positive or negative)?

 

Quiz 1 Answers:

1. Landscape fragmentation prevents wildlife from migrating along migration corridors and is especially disrupting to animals requiring large unending landscapes, such as bears. Cleared areas along the side of the road may provide habitat for invasive plant species.
2. Roads release sediment that enters waterways which can pollute the water and affect the organisms living in the water. Runoff from road maintenance, such as salt and oils also pollute waterways. Bridges and culverts can also block fish migration.
3. Noise pollution, increased access to remote cottaging areas; increased access for trapping, hunting, and non-timber forest product harvesting.

 

 

Quiz 2: Road Management

 

1. What is one important way forest companies can reduce the impact of road construction on fish habitat?
2. According to the Forest Stewardship Council, what are two ways of reducing the impacts of stream crossings?
3. What are two strategies for improving caribou habitat, according to Tembec’s management plans?
4. Which two road management plans include a moose management refuge?

 

Quiz 2 Answers:

 

1. Avoid constructing a bridge during the fish-breeding season. Erosion prevention.
2. Use temporary crossings; use the minimum number of crossings possible.
3. Natural disturbance design and historical harvest design. Natural disturbance design models harvesting after forest fires. Historical harvest design mimics old company cuts (i.e. early 1980’s) because the areas are currently being inhabited by caribou.
4. Happy Lake and Beaver Creek.

 

 

Quiz 3: Road Access:

 

1. What are the two Acts that allow the Ministry of Conservation to request a road closure?
2. Name four types of access control used by Tembec.
3. Explain the importance of location of access control points.
4. The Moose Management Committee did a study of moose populations in what three regions?
5. What are the 4 classes of logging roads?

 

Quiz 3 Answers:

1. Lands Act and Wildlife Act
2. Gates, barricades, trenches, no-hunting game refuge, decommissioning
3. Access points located on bridges work best because it is difficult to go around them with motorized vehicles.
4. Happy Lake, Rayner Lake and Beaver Creek.
5. Class 1- year round, all weather, paved, multiuse; Class 2- year round, all weather, gravel, single use; Class 3- summer, single use, grade and gravel where required, primarily to access cut blocks; Class 4- winter, no grade or gravel, primarily to access cut blocks.