Water Stewardship Information Sources
| Citation | Hudson, RO. 2003. Using combined snowpack and rainfall interception components to assess hydrologic recovery of a timber-harvested site: working toward an operational method. Forest Research Technical Report, TR-027. BC Ministry of Forests. |
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| Organization | FLNRO |
| URL | https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/rco/research/hydroreports/tr027.pdf |
| Abstract/Description or Keywords | This report describes the second of several steps being taken toward developing a science-based, comprehensive, integrated approach for assessing full hydrologic recovery of timber-harvested sites in coastal British Columbia watersheds. It builds on an earlier report, British Columbia Ministry of Forests’ Assessing Snowpack Recover y of Watersheds in the Vancouver Forest Region, that describes a regional approach for applying the snowmelt recovery method. The results of a rainfall interception study conducted on the mainland coast of British Columbia are described and then combined with results from other rainfall interception studies to form rainfall interception recovery curves. These curves are combined with a previously reported snowmelt recovery curve to form a unified method of determining hydrologic recovery due to snowmelt, rain-on-snow, and rainfall. KEYWORDS forestry, forest harvesting, forest management, hydrology, hydrologic recovery, peak flow, rainfall interception, clearcuts, snowpack, snowpack recovery, snowmelt, watershed, watershed assessment, Vancouver Forest Region, British Columbia |
| Information Type | report |
| Regional Watershed | Howe Sound & Sunshine Coast |
| Sub-watershed if known | Gray Creek |
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| Project status | complete |
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