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This guidebook provides current information and recommended procedures for designing, building, and maintaining forest roads in British Columbia according to the provincial Forest Practices Code Act and related regulations. The subject areas that are covered link objectives laid out in operational plans to the activities required to achieve those objectives on the ground. The sections in the guide cover topics on survey and design for road layout, construction and modification, and maintenance. In addition, the guide describes processes about which no other documentation is readily available, such as construction of fords and log culverts; provides information such as minimum expected results, operational practices that meet the objectives in the regulations, sketches of components, and design and construction constraints. Numerical analyses are used to illustrate these procedures.