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WATER YIELD AUGMENTATION THROUGH FOREST AND RANGE MANAGEMENT ‐ ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE 1
Author(s) -
Ponce Stanley L.,
Meiman James R.
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.tb04598.x
Subject(s) - yield (engineering) , transferability , environmental science , forest management , scale (ratio) , water use , environmental resource management , vegetation (pathology) , water resources , business , natural resource economics , water resource management , agroforestry , incentive , geography , economics , ecology , medicine , materials science , cartography , pathology , microeconomics , metallurgy , biology
The demand for more water is increasing throughout the country. Research on upland watersheds clearly demonstrates that water yield can be increased using forest and range management practices. Based on the experience of the past several decades and a review of six papers in a recent AWRA series on water yield augmentation through vegetation management, the following issues and concerns are discussed: predicting increased yields from large basins; economic evaluation of additional flows; court acceptance and need for system models; the legal question of ownership and transferability of increased yields; and management emphasis on private and federal lands. The immediate potential for water yield augmentation is on carefully selected watersheds that have the bio‐physical potential to produce high value water under environmentally acceptable multiple use management. We predict water yield management on a broader scale will result from increased pressures to solve the legal and economic issues involved.