ERFO has been used extensively on federal lands such as national forests, national parks, Bureau of Land Management lands, Indian reservations, and wildlife refuges.
"They know how to please their customers," said the Forest Service's ERFO project manager Dennis Knapp.
In the Northwest, since 1995, eight separate disasters have resulted in more than 6,500 damaged sites that were approved for ERFO funding.
WFLHD's ERFO Team completed its recent mission, repairing the damage from the disasters of 1995 to 1998.
He was the project manager for the Western Federal Lands Highway Division's ERFO Team from 1996 to 1999, and he worked closely with multiple federal land management agencies in the Northwest.
He joined the Federal Highway Administration in 1991, and for the past eight years, he served as a geotechnical engineer for WFLHD's geotechnical business-focused team and the WFLHD ERFO Team.
The Western Federal Lands Highway Division (WFLHD) formed its ERFO (Emergency Relief for Federally Owned Roads Program) Team for one reason practicality.