Planning best management practices to reduce sediment delivery from forest roads using WEPP: Road erosion modeling and simulated annealing optimization

Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 167-178

  Efta, James A ^a,b   Chung, Woodam ^c  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMPs; Budget planning; Erosion modeling; Forest roads; Road management; Simulated annealing; WEPP: Road

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; EROSION; FORESTRY; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAY PLANNING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SCHEDULING; SEDIMENTS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; WATERSHEDS;

BMP; BUDGET-PLANNING; EQUIPMENT SCHEDULING; EROSION MODELING; EROSION PREDICTIONS; FOREST ROADS; ROAD EROSION; ROAD MANAGEMENT; ROAD SEGMENTS; WEPP: ROAD;

FORECASTING;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; EROSIVITY; HEURISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; ROAD; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STREAMFLOW; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

LAKE TAHOE BASIN; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907270664     PISSN: 18455719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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