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Conference proceeding
Effects of prescribed fire on water quality at the Santee Experimental Watersheds in South Carolina
pp.29-39
Water Quality and Environmental Issues on Southern Forest Lands :Southern Regional Meeting of National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement (Atlanta, Georgia, 1984)
1984
Abstract
Prescribed fire is an important practice in the multiresource management of forests, and controlled burning is now applied annually to about 1 million hectares (2.4 million acres) of forest in the southeastern United States. Prescribed fires had few detectable effects on forest soils, nutrient cycling, and hydrologic systems of a pine-flatwoods watershed at the Santee Experimental Forest in the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina, a site of long-term watershed research by the US Forest Service and Duke University. Experiments were designed so that treatment effects would simulate responses of an operational southern pine forest, and it was concluded that nutrient fluxes from burned pine litter to ground and stream waters are not likely to have appreciable effects on the quality of waters that drain southern pine watersheds, especially those with fine-textured soils.
Details
- Title
- Effects of prescribed fire on water quality at the Santee Experimental Watersheds in South Carolina
- Publication Details
- pp.29-39
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Conference
- Water Quality and Environmental Issues on Southern Forest Lands :Southern Regional Meeting of National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement (Atlanta, Georgia, 1984)
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 11
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries by the author to digitize and/or display this information for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380167655006600
- Academic Unit
- Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering ; Biology
- Language
- English