Increasing costs for wastewater treatment provide incentives to
evaluate system alternatives, especially among small communities with limited
financial resources. Land treatment systems with hybrid poplar tree
plantations are becoming increasingly popular as one such alternative in the
Pacific Northwest.
Land treatment systems are made up of a complex dual system:...
Thirty-meter resolution Landsat data were used to evaluate the effects of irrigation management in the Wood River Valley, Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon. In an effort to reduce water use and leave more of the water resource in-stream, 4,674 ha of previously flood irrigated pasture was managed as dryland pasture. Ground-based...
Soil moisture is an essential climate variable influencing land–atmosphere interactions, an essential hydrologic variable impacting rainfall–runoff processes, an essential ecological variable regulating net ecosystem exchange, and an essential agricultural variable constraining food security. Large-scale soil moisture monitoring has advanced in recent years, creating opportunities to transform scientific understanding of soil...