Building Resiliency through Maintenance Activities, Low Volume Roads, and Public Lands Roadways

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January 13th, 2025

The evolving landscape of climate conditions leads to more frequent and intense natural hazard events, affecting low-volume roads on federal lands. Despite the existence of known maintenance solutions to reduce these impacts, the limited funding availability hinders the implementation of these solutions at scale. This funding limitation is compounded by the absence of necessary data and evidence to effectively substantiate and support the implementation of such solutions. Research is insufficient regarding maintenance as a means to improve low-volume road resilience. This gap underscores the need to investigate current maintenance practices and their efficacy in reducing the effects of climate-related hazards on such infrastructures.

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