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Forest practices and streamflow in western Oregon by Harr, R. Dennis 1941- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Forest practices and streamflow in western Oregon about?

"Forest management activities, including roadbuilding, clearcut logging, and broadcast burning, can change certain portions of the forest hydrologic cycle. Watershed studies and other hydrologic research in the Coast and western Cascade Ranges of Oregon have shown that these changes may increase annual water yield up to 62 centimeters, double minimum flows in summer, and increase fall peak flows up to 200 percent and small winter peak flows up to 45 percent in small watersheds. Changes in streamflow resulting from clearcut logging had little effect on either onsite damage to stream channels and hydraulic structures or downstream flooding when yarding caused only light disturbance of soil. By increasing the size of larger peak flows, roadbuilding and soil compaction may cause onsite damage in small, headwater basins. Increases in annual yield and minimum flows may be substantial on small watersheds that are clearcut; under sustained yield forest management, such increases are masked in large, parent watersheds by unaltered streamflow from unlogged watersheds."

Who reads Forest practices and streamflow in western Oregon?

Author

Harr, R. Dennis 1941-

Publisher

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1976.

Published

1976

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction