jpm1, I like your corduroy roads! Looks good and I wish I had that type of soil where I am making mine. Unfortunately I have a couple feet of peat or as termed by some government agency, "muck". I just need to get through this area and then I can enjoy the back 20+ acres that is much higher and very nice land. I agree Hemlock is good to use for this if you have it. I'm using white cedar and then poplar as my primary two species and then I'll use elm or black ash which is abundant where the low areas are. The elm is going to die off no matter what I do so my logic is use it instead of my red maple, yellow and white birch and burr oak as those are all good firewood.