Cumulative Watershed Effects of Fuel Management in the Western United States

By U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Forest Service

Fire suppression in the last century has resulted in forests with excessive amounts of biomass, leading to more severe wildfires, covering greater areas, requiring more resources for suppression and mitigation, and causing increased onsite and offsite damage to forests and watersheds. Forest managers are now attempting to reduce this accumulated biomass by thinning, prescribed fire, and other management activities. These activities will impact watershed health, particularly as larger areas are treated and treatment activities become more widespread in space and in time. Management needs, laws, social pressures, and legal findings have underscored a need to synthesize what we know about the cumulative watershed effects of fuel management activities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506139647
• ISBN13: 9781506139647
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"