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Human activities have degraded substantial portions of the nation’s ecological resources, including physical and biological aquatic systems. The effects are continuing and cumulative, and few high-quality aquatic ecosystems remain in the United States. Concern about these diminishing resources has resulted in numerous restoration programs. Some are well conceived and address complex ecosystem interactions. However, most restoration begins with a broad ecosystem issue and quickly narrows because of jurisdictional politics, land ownership, user interest, funding, or time. Too often, this...

Abstract - Important new lessons are not in technical details, but in how to scale up the details to apply to large watersheds and landscapes. Nearly three years of experience with the Northwest Forest Plan have revealed some major new challenges in the fields of watershed science. In particular, managers and resource specialists engaged in watershed analysis continue to struggle in three principal areas: 1) issue identification and integration of information from multiple disciplines; 2) establishing the context of issues within a multiplicity of spatial scales; and 3) establishing the...

Abstract - Dynamic equilibrium in stream channels has traditionally been applied on the reach scale, where fluxes of water and sediment into a reach result in rapid but minor adjustments of channel dimensions, hydraulics or roughness (equilibrium), or aggradation and degradation (disequilibrium). Such an essentially one-dimensional spatial approach to sediment-channel interactions implicitly avoids a long standing and difficult problem: how do large inputs of sediment travel through channel systems and thereby distribute the fluxes to which channels respond at any time scale?

This report summarizes the results of research on the nonmarket economic impacts of forest insect pests. The majority of the research reports are journal articles or fulfillment of three USDA Forest Service research contracts. This report also reviews the foundations for methodologies used and classifies the forest insect pests studied, the regions in which research has been conducted, the designated land-use areas, the stakeholders, the values, the measurement methods used, and the measures of value indicators. Information on each research project is described with relevant information...