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Watershed Management

Balancing Sustainability and Environmental Change

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Robert J. Naiman

    1. Center for Streamside Studies, AR-10, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  3. Elements of Integrated Watershed Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Fundamental Elements of Ecologically Healthy Watersheds in the Pacific Northwest Coastal Ecoregion

      • Robert J. Naiman, Timothy J. Beechie, Lee E. Benda, Dean R. Berg, Peter A. Bisson, Lee H. MacDonald et al.
      Pages 127-188

    3. Best Management Practices, Cumulative Effects, and Long-Term Trends in Fish Abundance in Pacific Northwest River Systems

      • Peter A. Bisson, Thomas P. Quinn, Gordon H. Reeves, Stanley V. Gregory
      Pages 189-232

    4. Sensitivity of the Regional Water Balance in the Columbia River Basin to Climate Variability: Application of a Spatially Distributed Water Balance Model

      • Jayne Dolph, Danny Marks, George A. King
      Pages 233-265

    5. Impacts of Watershed Management on Land-Margin Ecosystems: The Columbia River Estuary

      • Charles A. Simenstad, David A. Jay, Christopher R. Sherwood
      Pages 266-306

    6. Some Emerging Issues in Watershed Management: Landscape Patterns, Species Conservation, and Climate Change

      • F. J. Swanson, R. P. Neilson, G. E. Grant
      Pages 307-323

    7. Using Simulation Models and Geographic Information Systems to Integrate Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology

      • John Pastor, Carol A. Johnston
      Pages 324-346

    8. Consideration of Watersheds in Long-Term Forest Planning Models: The Case of FORPLAN and Its Use on the National Forests

      • K. Norman Johnson
      Pages 347-360

    9. Integrating Management Tools, Ecological Knowledge, and Silviculture

      • Chadwick Dearing Oliver, Dean R. Berg, David R. Larsen, Kevin L. O’Hara
      Pages 361-382

  4. Innovative Approaches for Mitigation and Restoration of Watersheds

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 383-383
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    2. The Science and Politics of BMPs in Forestry: California Experiences

      • Raymond M. Rice
      Pages 385-400

    3. Best Management Practices and Cumulative Effects from Sedimentation in the South Fork Salmon River: An Idaho Case Study

      • Walter F. Megahan, John P. Potyondy, Kathleen A. Seyedbagheri
      Pages 401-414

    4. Management for Water Quality on Rangelands Through Best Management Practices: The Idaho Approach

      • Kendall L. Johnson
      Pages 415-441
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Conceptual separation of humans and natural ecosystems is reflected in the thinking of most natural resource management professions, including for­ estry, wildlife management, fisheries, range management, and watershed management (Burch 1971). Such thinking can deny the reality of the human element in local, regional, and global ecosystems (Bonnicksen and Lee 1982, Klausner 1971, Vayda 1977). As complex organisms with highly developed cultural abilities to modify their environment, humans directly or indirectly affect almost all terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (Bennett 1976). Conse­ quently, information for managing watershed ecosystems is incomplete without consideration of human institutions and activities. Sociologists have studied the relationships between human societies and the land base or ecosystems on which they depend for over 60 years (Field and Burch 1990). These studies are distinguished by (1) a holistic perspec­ tive that sees people and their environments as interacting systems, (2) flex­ ible approaches that permit either the environment or human society to be treated as the independent variable in analyzing of society-environment re­ lations, and (3) accumulation of a substantial body of knowledge about how the future welfare of a society is influenced by its uses (or misuses) of land and water (Firey 1990).

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  • Center for Streamside Studies, AR-10, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Robert J. Naiman

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