Vehicle impacts on the environment at different spatial scales: Observations in west central Georgia, USA

Virginia Dale; Daniel L. Druckenbrod; Latha Baskaran; Matthew Aldridge; Michael Berry; Chuck Garten; Lisa Olsen; Rebecca Efroymson; Robert Washington-Allen

doi:10.1016/j.jterra.2004.10.011

Vehicle impacts on the environment at different spatial scales: Observations in west central Georgia, USA

Virginia Dale, Daniel L. Druckenbrod, Latha Baskaran, Matthew Aldridge, Michael Berry, Chuck Garten, Lisa Olsen, Rebecca Efroymson, Robert Washington-Allen

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health

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Abstract

The hypothesis that the observable impacts of roads on the environment depend on spatial resolution was examined. The environmental impacts of vehicles and roads were considered at four scales in west central Georgia in and around Fort Benning: a second-order catchment, a third order watershed, entire military installation, and five-county region including Fort Benning. Impacts from an experimental path made by a tracked vehicle were examined in the catchment. Land-cover changes discerned through remote sensing data over the past three decades were considered at the watershed and installation scales. The insights from the analysis has led to several questions about resource management at different spatial scales.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	383-402
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Terramechanics
Volume	42
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jterra.2004.10.011
State	Published - Jul 2005

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We appreciate the assistance of many people in this study. Troy Key and Phil Bennet from the Fort Benning land management staff operated the bulldozers. Hal Balbach and Hugh Westbury were persistent in their efforts to make the experiment occur. Rusty Bufford located and scanned the orthrophotographs used in the study. James Cantu and Kelly Maloney provided photo records of the experimental site. Jennifer Ayers, James Cantu, John Dilustro, Sharon Hermann, and Keiran O’Hara helped with the field sampling. Karmen Smith and Jordon Smith entered some of the field data. Paul Ayers provided the equipment to record the path of the bulldozer and translated the results into a GIS file. Gay Marie Logsdon edited the manuscript. Comments of two anonymous reviewers greatly improved the manuscript. The project was funded by a contract from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) projects CS-1114C and CS-1259 to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by the UT-Battelle, LLC, for the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.

Keywords

Bulk density
Disturbance
Fort Benning
Land cover
Landscape
Management
Scale
Simulation
Soil compaction
Vegetation

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