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Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape

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In 1976, a group of Forest Service scientists1 published a seminal volume
on forests and water that evaluated the effects of forest management on floods,
sedimentation, and water supply. It was one of the first comprehensive attempts
to link upstream forest management with downstream water management and
supply. For many years, this report served as a critical reference for forest
hydrology scientists and managers. Much has changed since 1976. Thirty years
ago, no one would have imagined that clear-cutting on public lands in the
Pacific Northwest would come to a screeching halt, that farmers would give up
water for endangered fish and birds, or that climate change would produce
quantifiable changes in forest structure, species, and water supplies. Today,
however, these phenomena shape the management of forests and water. Such
developments have sharpened public awareness and heightened tensions
between water users and water sources. It is time to enumerate these changing
factors and assess the science of forest hydrology in light of these dynamic
circumstances.

The forest hydrology literature is full of articles that have attempted to
synthesize, retrospectively, the hydrologic effects of forest management. This
literature reflects sharply different views of the magnitude and significance of
those effects. To date, there have been no examples in the published literature
in which a group of scientists, managers, and practitioners came together and
reached consensus on what is known and what needs to be known about the
hydrologic effects of forest disturbance and management. This National
Research Council (NRC) report, Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest
Landscape, does just that. This report combines forest and water management
perspectives, but the committee strove to exclude value judgments on forest
management practices, watershed management, and water augmentation. The
NRC committee structure was essential to realizing this major contribution to
the forest and water communities because it provided a unique setting for
convening experts to reach consensus on these important and timely issues.
The members of this NRC committee include scientists, engineers,
practitioners, and policy experts from across North America, each with unique
perspectives on and knowledge of forests and water. The committee embraced
this rare opportunity to integrate diverse expertise and synthesize collective
knowledge in a form that advances science and water resource management.
The committee hopes that this report is valuable to the next generation of
scientists, land and water managers, and citizens who strive to sustain water
resources from forests in the coming years.

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Judul Seri

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Penerbit

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press., 2008

Deskripsi Fisik

180 pages, 6 x 9, (2008)

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0309121094

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Tipe Media

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KEHUTANAN

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