Author: Robert Steven LoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forestry engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Montana Forestry BMP's, Best Management Practices
Author: Robert Steven LoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forestry engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Technical Release
Author: Riparian Areas
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309082951
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.
Staff Mediated Information Flows to Forest Policy Committees in State Legislatures
Author: Bernard J. LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Custer National Forest (N.P.), Threemile Stewardship Project
Author: Regulation of Private Forestry Practices by State Governments
Author: Paul V. EllefsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Waters and Water Rights
Author: Station Bulletin
Author: Custer National Forest (N.F.), Ashland Post-fire Project
Author: Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309172683
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City's watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution sources, advances in treatment technologies, and natural variations in watershed conditions. The book recommends that New York City place its highest priority on pathogenic microorganisms in the watershed and direct its resources toward improving methods for detecting pathogens, understanding pathogen transport and fate, and demonstrating that best management practices will remove pathogens. Other recommendations, which are broadly applicable to surface water supplies across the country, target buffer zones, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.