Increasing demand for exploitation of natural resources
in federal-municipal watersheds in the Western United
States has caused conflicts involving municipalities, the
U.S. Forest Service, and community interest groups. Better
understanding of the resource management process is needed
to help resolve these conflicts.
The objectives of this study were to document...
Throughout the 20th century, windthrow has affected forests in the Bull Run watershed, a 26,500 ha basin that is the principal water source for the city of Portland, Oregon. Windthrow from storms in 1973 and 1983 was mapped into a geographic information system (GIS) and compared to a 1931 windthrow...
An 18-year record of nitrate (NO₃), orthophosphate, total nitrogen and total phosphorus in four streams of the Bull Run
watershed, Oregon, was examined to determine its precision and time resolution. Of these four species, only NO₃ was found to be known to a sufficient level of detail for modeling and...