RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Reforestation reduces streamflow in the southeastern United States
JF Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
FD Soil and Water Conservation Society
SP 274
OP 276
VO 42
IS 4
A1 Stanley W. Trimble
A1 Frank H. Weirich
YR 1987
UL http://www.jswconline.org/content/42/4/274.abstract
AB Reforestation in the southeastern United States is reducing streamflow over large areas of land. Ten large river basins encompassing 54,000 km2 had 10% to 28% of their respective areas reforested between 1919 and 1967. This reforestation reduced water yields in the river basins 3 cm to 10 cm. These reductions constituted a 4% to 21% decline in annual stream discharge, a decline that was statistically significant in a majority of the basins. The streamflow reductions as a result of reforestation tended to be greater during dry years then during wet years.