Premium
Forest Management for Increased Timber and Water Yields
Author(s) -
Bowes Michael D.,
Krutilla John V.,
Sherman Paul B.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr020i006p00655
Subject(s) - evapotranspiration , vegetation (pathology) , environmental science , streamflow , montane ecology , snow , hydrology (agriculture) , joint (building) , production (economics) , water resources , water resource management , agroforestry , geography , ecology , drainage basin , geology , meteorology , engineering , civil engineering , geotechnical engineering , medicine , cartography , macroeconomics , pathology , economics , biology
In some regions of the country where timber management alone affords at best only indifferent economic prospects, it may be possible that joint “production” of both water and timber is economic. The Colorado subalpine forests of the West Slope, in combination with the extensive development of the Upper Colorado River, provide conditions that merit examination. The release of water available for streamflow from the reduction in evapotranspiration and other features of a vegetation manipulation‐snow management regime is the basic mechanism for joint production. Unless other values are realized from joint production not realized from the manipulation of vegetation for water alone, it may be that the Colorado subalpine forests are not being managed to produce the most valuable, if unconventional, output.