Organizational Overview
Federal Lands Highway (FLH)
Nearly one-third of the land area of the United States is Federally-owned and administered. The Federal Government has a special interest in and responsibility for highways on/or serving these Federal Lands. Congress has established various programs to fund the construction of highways on Federal lands and has authorized the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to perform engineering and related services in connection with their improvement. The FHWA administers the Federal Lands Highway Program, including survey, design and construction of forest highway system roads, parkways and park roads, refuge roads, Indian reservation roads, defense access roads, and other Federal lands roads.
Western Federal Lands Highway Division (WFL)
Based in Vancouver, Washington, WFL is one of three field Division offices responsible for the Federal Lands Highway Program. WFL provides our partners with transportation program administration and engineering services for planning, environmental compliance, design, contract administration, construction, and rehabilitation of highway and bridges on or providing access to federally-owned lands in the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and two National Parks located in Wyoming.
WFL Project Delivery
The core business of Project Delivery is to design and oversee construction of highways and highway improvements on Federal lands in a multi-state area. The Project Development Branch employs approximately 45 full-time employees engaged in highway design engineering and environmental compliance. The Construction Branch employs a staff of approximately 50 fi eld employees engaged in highway construction engineering. The program impacts the traveling public by providing safe and scenic means of surface transportation in and adjacent to National Forests and National Parks. Projects are carried out region-wide, but in many cases, are of wider importance because they involve nationally traveled U.S. Forest highways and National Park roads, and other treasured national resource areas.