Factors affecting large peakflows on Appalachian watersheds : lessons from the Fernow Experimental Forest / James N. Kochenderfer [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Kochenderfer, J. N.

United States. Forest Service. Northern Research Station

Series:

Research paper NRS ; 3.

Research paper NRS ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest influences--West Virginia--Fernow Experimental Forest.

Forest influences.

Logging--Environmental aspects--West Virginia--Fernow Experimental Forest.

Logging.

Runoff--West Virginia--Fernow Experimental Forest.

Runoff.

Logging--Environmental aspects.

West Virginia--Fernow Experimental Forest.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newtown Square, PA : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, [2007]

Summary:

Data collected since 1951 on the Fernow Experimental Forest near Parsons, West Virginia, and at a gaging station on the nearby Cheat River since 1913 were used to evaluate factors affecting large peakflows on forested watersheds. Treatments ranged from periodic partial cuts to complete deforestation using herbicides. Total storm precipitation and average storm precipitation intensity were the most significant variables affecting peakflows, and were far more important than timber harvesting activities. Since January 1913, of the 20 highest ranked peakflows on the Cheat River at the Parsons gaging site, 11 have occurred since 1984 during a period of limited timber harvesting. These results support earlier findings that forests do not prevent floods and that prudent forest harvesting operations do not increase large flood peakflows.

Notes:

"September 2007"--Title page verso

Title from Web page (viewed on November 1, 2007).

OCLC:

180189007