The effects of fire on watersheds: a summary

Nicholas Dennis

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The effects of fire on watersheds: a summary

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Nicholas Dennis

Year:

1989

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Berg, Neil H. tech. coord. Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management: October 26-28, 1988, Sacramento, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-109. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station: 92-94

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Abstract

Over the past three days we have been presented with the results of a most impressive quantity and quality of research on the effects of fire on watersheds. My attempt to summarize these papers will hardly do them justice, but hopefully will recapitulate some of their more important and generalizable findings. My comments are organized into the following categories: soil temperature, soil nutrients, soil erosion, soil hydrology and streamflow, vegetation structure, stream temperature, and impacts of firefighting.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the symposium on fire and watershed management

Citation

Dennis, Nicholas. 1989. The effects of fire on watersheds: a summary. In: Berg, Neil H. tech. coord. Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management: October 26-28, 1988, Sacramento, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-109. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station: 92-94