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Science March Can demolishing abandoned dirt paths point the way to a more sustainable future? Now ecologists are calling in bulldozers to rip them up. By Ben Goldfarb. Photographs by Tailyr Irvine. It would be a pleasant spot to sit with your back against a lodgepole pine and watch chickadees bounce from branch to branch.
I visited the clearing one summer afternoon with an ecologist named Adam Switalski. Years ago, Switalski explained, large tracts of this land belonged to a private timber company, which had etched the forest with dirt roads to haul out wood. Eventually the logging operations ceased, and the company transferred its holdings to the U. Forest Service, which did little to deal with the derelict roads it inherited.
The neglected roads plagued the forest, bleeding silt into streams and funneling disruptive humans into critical habitat for grizzlies, lynx and other sensitive species. Switalski held up his phone to display a map of the forest, across which the black lines of obsolete roads squirmed like parasites in a gut.
The map is hardly unique. Roads, with their deadly traffic, noise pollution, chronic erosion and attendant humans, are among the most ubiquitous and powerful forces threatening our public lands and the wildlife and fragile ecosystems they contain. Douglas wrote in his environmental treatise A Wilderness Bill of Rights. Yet these refuges are tragically scarce. The Montana hillside on which Switalski and I now stood was a prime example of an unglamorous yet powerful tool for protecting our biodiversityβroad removal, commonly known as road decommissioning.
In the early s, the Forest Service brought heavy machinery to this old logging road, ripping it up to permit new grasses, shrubs and trees to sprout from the stirred earth. Waist-high thimbleberry bushes now covered the slope, and Douglas fir seedlings plunged roots deep into the loosened soil.