A modified Road Condition Survey (RCS) was conducted by the Alaska Dept. of Fish
and Game (ADF&G) Division of Habitat and Restoration (H&R), to assist the Klawock
Watershed Council and primary landowners in developing a restoration and management
plan for the Klawock Watershed. The Klawock Watershed is a 29,000-acre coastal
watershed, which surrounds 2800-acre Klawock Lake and is managed by three Native
corporations and the USDA Forest Service (USFS). The RCS was conducted May-July
of 2002, and documented the condition of roads and stream crossing structures within the
watershed. Over 1,000 features were identified and mapped into a Geographic
Information System (GIS), along with a full complement of relevant attributes. H&R
staff documented over 400 stream crossings associated with permanent and nonpermanent
roads within the watershed. All stream crossing structures were qualitatively
evaluated based on conditional features; a subset of all culvert pipes was more thoroughly
evaluated based on a Red-Grey-Green screening, which identified fish passage concerns.
Twenty-nine culvert pipes were identified as RED, where present condition is not
adequate for fish passage. In addition, over 250 erosional features were documented,
with the majority of them associated with the temporary roads in the watershed.
