{"id":4986,"date":"2025-09-11T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=4986"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:00:14","slug":"forest-roads-project","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/kb\/forest-roads-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Roads Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Forest Roads Project<\/strong> is an ongoing effort to create and maintain an unpaved road system for better ATV and tractor access to the 395 acres of the Camp.  This project is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/kb\/stewardship\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Stewardship is the acknowledgement and practice that everything belongs to God, and as his children in fellowship with Him and following the model of the Son, we are empowered to sustainably use all that is entrusted to us for the good of all He loves. Stewardship is one of Camp's Initiatives: four major area of focus across Program and Projects that are derived from our Mission &amp; Values. Camp applies Stewardship to human resources, financial &amp; material resources, and creation resources, and sees all these areas as intertwined in an integrated whole. Want to get involved? We are always looking&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Stewardship<\/a> Initiative, especial helpful in Land Stewardship and <a href=\"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/kb\/forestry-stewardship\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forestry Stewardship is a program under Camp Deerpark's Stewardship Initiative tasked with managing the approximately 360 acres of forest owned by the Camp. Like all Stewardship programming, Forestry stewardship sees humans as part of creation that have a unique God-ordained role in managing living things and resources according to his way and will. The current program was founded in 1997 by members of the North Bronx Mennonite Owner Church and friends who began to advise Camp on sustainable practices informed by work on community forest management by Dr. Chuck Peters (see this history). Projects 10% Inventory -- from 1998-2000 approximately&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Forestry Stewardship<\/a> because it opens the 369 acres of Camp forest to better management, including firewood harvest and forestry management.  It will also potentially improve emergency access into the forest for fire fighting and rescue purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forest Roads Project uses the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/threads\/topic-tag\/forest-roads\/\">Forest Roads<\/a><\/em> tag on Threads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CDP Forest Road Specifications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The unobstructed tread of the road must be at least 10&prime; wide to accommodate equipment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turns and curves should have at least a 25-foot radius<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No sustained grade should be more than 10%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The road should be resistant to erosion including proper drainage of thread, water bars, appropriate slope, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As labor is available, roads should be kept in working order and free from obstacles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"encyclopedia-category":[79,341,149,331],"class_list":["post-4986","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-category-grounds","encyclopedia-category-land-stewardship","encyclopedia-category-projects","encyclopedia-category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4986\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-category?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}