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- Title
Water Quality Effects of Clearcut Harvesting and Forest Fertilization with Best Management Practices.
- Authors
McBroom, Matthew W.; Beasley, R. Scott; Mingteh Chang; Ice, George G.
- Abstract
This article discusses the impact of silvicultural best management practices (BMPs) on the water quality of watershed in East Texas. The authors compared conventional practices and clearcutting with herbicides and fertilization. According to the authors, clearcutting with conventional site preparation resulted in increased nitrogen losses on the small watersheds, but losses were not significantly increased on the large watershed with a conventional site preparation with BMPs. They concluded that intensive silvicultural practices with BMPs did not significantly impact surface water quality with nitrogen and phosphorus.
- Subjects
EAST Texas; TEXAS; SILVICULTURAL systems; CLEARCUTTING; FERTILIZER application; BEST management practices (Pollution prevention); HERBICIDES; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; WATER quality; WATERSHEDS
- Publication
Journal of Environmental Quality, 2008, Vol 37, Issue 1, p114
- ISSN
0047-2425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2134/jeq2006.0552