Direct and indirect effects of forest harvesting on sediment yield in forested watersheds of the United States

ZP McEachran, DL Karwan… - JAWRA Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Managed forests generally produce high water quality, but degradation is possible via
sedimentation if proper management is not implemented during forest harvesting. To …

Effect of deforestation on access to clean drinking water

AM Mapulanga, H Naito - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Using satellite data on deforestation and weather in Malawi and linking those datasets with
household survey datasets, we estimate the causal effect of deforestation on access to clean …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of fine-grained sediment on mountain stream macroinvertebrate communities: Forestry activities and beaver-induced sediment management

A Bylak, K Kukuła - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Fine-grained sediments are a natural component of river systems. Human activities generate
additional sources of fine sediment. In mountainous areas, the anthropogenic inputs of fine …

Impacts of prescribed fire on soil loss and soil quality: An assessment based on an experimentally-burned catchment in central Portugal

RA Shakesby, CPM Bento, CSS Ferreira, AJD Ferreira… - Catena, 2015 - Elsevier
Prescribed (controlled) fire has recently been adopted as an important wildfire-fighting
strategy in the Mediterranean. Relatively little research, however, has assessed its impacts …

[HTML][HTML] Runoff and soil erosion assessment on forest roads using a small scale rainfall simulator

JJ Zemke - Hydrology, 2016 - mdpi.com
Forestry operations can significantly alter hydrological and erosional processes in a
catchment. In the course of developing timberland, a network of persistent roads and skid …

A novel Budyko-based approach to quantify post-forest-fire streamflow response and recovery timescales

TB Hampton, NB Basu - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent increases in the incidences of wildfires have necessitated the development of
methodologies to quantify the effect of these fires on streamflows. Climate variability has …

Modeling forest management effects on water and sediment yield from nested, paired watersheds in the interior Pacific Northwest, USA using WEPP

A Srivastava, ES Brooks, M Dobre, WJ Elliot… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model was applied to seven paired,
nested watersheds within the Mica Creek Experimental Watershed located in northern …

Sediment delivery from bare and graveled forest road stream crossing approaches in the Virginia Piedmont

KR Brown, WM Aust, KJ McGuire - Forest Ecology and Management, 2013 - Elsevier
Forest road stream crossing approaches, or the section of road immediately adjacent to the
stream crossing, represent primary sources and nearly direct pathways for sediment delivery …

Effectiveness of best management practices for sediment reduction at operational forest stream crossings

LR Wear, WM Aust, MC Bolding, BD Strahm… - Forest Ecology and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Temporary skid trail stream crossings have repeatedly been identified as having
considerable potential to introduce sediment to streams. Forestry Best Management …

Sediment fingerprinting to delineate sources of sediment in the agricultural and forested Smith Creek watershed, Virginia, USA

AC Gellis, L Gorman Sanisaca - JAWRA Journal of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The sediment fingerprinting approach was used to apportion fine‐grained sediment to
cropland, pasture, forests, and streambanks in the agricultural and forested Smith Creek …