Potential effects of timber harvest and water management on streamflow dynamics and sediment transport

C. A. Troendle; W. K. Olsen

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Potential effects of timber harvest and water management on streamflow dynamics and sediment transport

Informally Refereed

Authors:

C. A. Troendle, W. K. Olsen

Year:

1994

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Covington, W. Wallace; DeBano, Leonard F.; tech, coords. Sustainable ecological systems: implementing an ecological approach to land management. 1993 July 12-15; Flagstaff, Arizona. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-247. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. p. 34-41.

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Abstract

The sustainability of aquatic and riparian ecological systems is strongly tied to the dynamics of the streamflow regime. Timber harvest can influence the flow regime by increasing total flow, altering peak discharge rate, and changing the duration of flows of differing frequency of occurrence. These changes in the energy and sediment transporting capability of the fluvial system can cause an alteration in both channel morphology and aquatic habitat. Depending on practices used, timber harvest can increase the rate of sediment introduction to the channel system, thus further confounding the energy/transport relationship.

Parent Publication

Sustainable ecological systems: Implementing an ecological approach to land management

Keywords

sustainable ecological systems, ecosystem management, use, biology, conservation, restoration, ecology, sustainable ecosystems and forest health, Fraser Experimental Forest

Citation

Troendle, C. A.; Olsen, W. K. 1994. Potential effects of timber harvest and water management on streamflow dynamics and sediment transport. In: Covington, W. Wallace; DeBano, Leonard F.; tech, coords. Sustainable ecological systems: implementing an ecological approach to land management. 1993 July 12-15; Flagstaff, Arizona. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-247. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. p. 34-41.