Managing vegetation to increase flow in the Colorado River Basin

Alden R. Hibbert

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Managing vegetation to increase flow in the Colorado River Basin

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Alden R. Hibbert

Year:

1979

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-66. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 27 p.

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Abstract

Water yield from forest and rangelands can be augmented by managing vegetation and snow to reduce evapotranspiration. Some arbitrary goals to increase water yield were chosen to illustrate the potential for increasing water yield, and treatments were hypothesized to get these increases.

Keywords

watershed management, snow management, land use, forest land, brushlands, surface waters, runoff, watersheds

Citation

Hibbert, Alden R. 1979. Managing vegetation to increase flow in the Colorado River Basin. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-66. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 27 p.