Factors affecting large peakflows on Appalachian watersheds : lessons from the Fernow Experimental Forest /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	United States. Forest Service. Northern Research Station
Other Authors:	Kochenderfer, J. N.
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Newtown Square, PA : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, [2007]
Series:	Research paper NRS ; 3.
Subjects:	Forest influences > West Virginia > Fernow Experimental Forest. Logging > Environmental aspects > West Virginia > Fernow Experimental Forest. Runoff > West Virginia > Fernow Experimental Forest.
Online Access:	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS88487

Description
Abstract:	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 activites. 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.
Item Description:	"September 2007."--Title page verso. Title from Web page (viewed on Nov. 1, 2007). Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	24 pages : digital, PDF file.
Format:	Mode of access: Internet from the Forest Service web site. Address as of 12/05/07: http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/rp/rp%5Fnrs3.pdf ; current access is available via PURL.