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Title	Effect of management on water quality in North American forests.
Creator	Brown, Thomas C. (Thomas Capnor), 1945-
Contributor	Binkley, Dan.
Description	Although the quality of water draining forested watersheds is typically the best in the Nation, some forest management practices can seriously impair streamwater quality. Sediment is the main concern. High suspended sediment levels, and adverse changes in the stream channels, are potential problems in several regions, especially after road construction, and some harvesting and grazing practices. Impacts are most serious where fish reproduction is affected. Nitrate and water temperature are less serious problems. Harvesting can increase nitrate levels markedly, in some locations; and removal of overstory from along streambanks can raise water temperatures enough to impair fish survival. Best management practices (BMPs) can avoid most of these harmful effects. Additional work is needed in some locations, to encourage BMP use and to tailor BMP specifications to site-specific conditions.
Publisher	Fort Collins, Colo. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, [1994]
Subject	Forest management - - Environmental aspects - - United States. ; <br> Water - - Pollution - - United States. ; <br> Water quality management - - United States. ; <br> Watershed management - - United States.
Relation	General technical report RM ; 248.
Source	A 13.88:RM-248
Date Original	1994-06-01
Date Digital	2007;
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Resource Identifier	mtg002118
Contributing Institution	The University of Montana
Language	en
Digitization Specifications	Scanned by Lacey Gibbons using an OpticBook 3600 scanner at 400 dpi, 8 bit gray scale. Master images stored as TIFF and derivatives presented as PDF. Abbey FineReader 8.0 used for optical character recognition.

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