Water quality protection in bioenergy production: The US system of forestry Best Management Practices

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 378-384

  Shepard, James P ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clean Water Act; Forestry; Non point source pollution; Timber harvesting

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; POLLUTION; TIMBER; WOOD PRODUCTS;

BIOENERGY; CLEAN WATER ACT; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; TIMBER HARVESTING;

WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; POLLUTION; TIMBER; WATER QUALITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; TIMBER HARVESTING;

FORESTS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 33644909337     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2005.07.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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