Quantitative Reconstruction of Water Yield Based on Historic Changes in Forest Cover
- HF-ID: HF1997-12
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Watson, B.C.
- Associated Person: Barten, P.K.
- Date: April 1997 to May 1997
- Location: Connecticut, Petersham MA
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Project Report - Ecosystem Hydronamics class (2 copies), and correspondence.
- NOTE: During the 2017 Archive Renovations mice damaged the file folder. NO DATA WAS LOST OR DAMAGED. The file folder was replaced. . 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: climate, hydrology, land use history, soil
- Abstract:
- Because land use frequently alters the density, extent, and type of forest vegetation, it has the potential to substantially change the hydrologic function of forested watersheds. in the case of the Prospect hill site, changes in forest cover caused by land clearing, agriculture, farm abandonment, and timber harvesting have resulted in markedly variable hydrologic conditions since the time of European settlement. The working hypothesis of this project was that historic changes in water yield can be reliably and defensibly estimated. The project's
- goal was to calculate estimates of water yield for the Prospect Hill tract over the time period depicted by the Harvard Forest Models (1700 to 1930).
- Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 11, drawer 5
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