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Local and Downstream Impacts of Contemporary Forest Practices on Sediment Yield

Explore the influence of contemporary forest practices on sediment yield in varied watersheds and their correlation with discharge. Analyze factors such as buffer strips, clearcut size limits, and road connectivity. Investigate transfer processes and watershed erosion rates.

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Local and Downstream Impacts of Contemporary Forest Practices on Sediment Yield

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  1. Local and Downstream Impacts of Contemporary Forest Practices on Sediment Yield A Skaugset, N Zegre, A Simmons, & H Owens

  2. Cast of Characters Amy Simmons Alex Irving Nic Zegre Dennis Feney Tim Royer Emily Sinkhorn Matt Meadows Chris Surfleet

  3. Sediment Yield Calculations • Discharge is very important to the calculation of sediment yield. • Sediment yield is highly skewed to the few days with the greatest discharge. • Sediment yield will be highly correlated to discharge. • Increases in water yield should correlate with increases in sediment yield.

  4. Regional Sediment Yield Values

  5. Watershed Study Sediment Yield Results

  6. Sediment Yield Results • Sediment yield results from contemporary forest practices are not consistent with the findings in the seminal literature. • Historically, sediment yield has doubled or tripled or greater vs contemporary increases in the 20 to 40% range. • Why is that?

  7. Buffer strips

  8. Clearcut size limits and adjacency constraints

  9. Skyline Logging Systems

  10. Site Preparation

  11. Location, construction, maintenance, and, especially connectivity, of roads.

  12. Transfer Processes in Steep Forested Catchments Debris Avalanche Slump orearthflow Soilcreep RootThrow Litterfall Solutiontransport Surfacemovement Hillslope Process Stream Channel Process Dissolved load Suspended load Bed load Debris torrent Modified from Swanson et al., 1982

  13. What I Think I Think • Sediment yield result do not appear to be consistent with the findings in the seminal literature. • The results appear to be more muted, with increases in the 20% to 40% range. • These results are in agreement with and correlate with the increases in water yield. • A testable hypothesis is that the increase is due to increased stream power due to increased water yield. • An alternative hypothesis is that the increase is due to an increased erosion rate of the watershed due to logging.

  14. Douglas County Thank You!

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