Detecting cumulative effects on headwater streams in the Routt National Forest, Colorado

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1163-1177

  Schnackenberg, Elizabeth S ^a   MacDonald, Lee H ^b  

^a Routt National Forest   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed material particle size; Cumulative watershed effects; Forest management; Roads; Sedimentation; Stream channels; Watershed management wildland hydrology

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; ROADS AND STREETS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

CUMULATIVE WATERSHED EFFECT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; OUTCROP; STREAM; STREAM CHANNEL;

SURFACE WATERS;

EID: 0032192060     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1998.tb04162.x     Document Type: Article

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