Herbicides--Protecting Long-Term Sustainability and Water Quality in Forest Ecosystems

Abstract

World-wide, sediment is the major water quality problem. The use of herbicides for controllingcompeting vegetation during stand establishment can be benciicial to forest ecosystem sustainability and water quality by minimising off-site soil loss, reducing onsite soil and organic matter displacement, and preventing deterioration of soil physical properties. Sediment losses from sites where competing vegetation is controlled by mechanical methods can be I to 2 orders of magnitude greater than natoral Losses from undisturbed watersheds. On a watershed basis, vegetation management techniques in general incrcaseannualerosion by

Citation

Neary, Daniel G.; Michael, Jerry L. 1996. Herbicides--Protecting Long-Term Sustainability and Water Quality in Forest Ecosystems. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science. 26(1/2): 241-264.