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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT FOR JOINT PRODUCTION OF WATER AND TIMBER: A PROVISIONAL ASSESSMENT 1
Author(s) -
Krutilla John V.,
Bowes Michael D.,
Sherman Paul
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1983.tb04597.x
Subject(s) - interception , riparian zone , yield (engineering) , environmental science , watershed , wood production , canopy , canopy interception , snow , production (economics) , water resource management , transpiration , montane ecology , hydrology (agriculture) , agroforestry , forest management , computer science , geography , meteorology , economics , habitat , ecology , throughfall , geology , soil water , materials science , macroeconomics , archaeology , biology , machine learning , soil science , metallurgy , geotechnical engineering , photosynthesis , botany
Removal of forest canopy to reduce interception, evaporation, and transpiration, and to collect blowing snow, etc., has been demonstrated to increase water yield from small subalpine watersheds. How useable the increase in yield might be depends on a number of factors. It is likely that a more complete description of what occurs in the acquatic and riparian environment as a result of the increased yield, and at points of collection or diversion will affect our judgment. There is room for a further contribution by earth and life scientists to fully round out the biophysical effects to be assessed in economic terms. A partial analysis may nonetheless be undertaken, and given certain peculiarly favorable circumstances in the Colorado Rockies for increases in yield, and the existence of a water transporting and utilizing infrastructure and markets, a provisional economic judgment can be reached.