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Trees and Snow in Seattle's Cedar River Watershed: Can Silviculture Help Combat Climate Change?

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Title Trees and Snow in Seattle's Cedar River Watershed: Can Silviculture Help Combat Climate Change?
 
Creator Lundquist, Jessica
 
Subject trees
snow
precipitation
watersheds
silviculture
climate change
ecological restoration
public water supply
dams (hydrology)
reservoirs
snowmelt
Snowmelt Runoff Model
water
 
Description Lundquist will provide a brief history of the Cedar River watershed. She will consider how climate change is likely to affect the watershed. Next, she will present an overview of interactions between trees and snow. She will describe her current research study, sharing its design and some very preliminary results. She will conclude with: Perhaps trees can help us retain snow on our landscape, but we have to get that snow onto the landscape first...
 
Publisher University of Washington Water Center
 
Date 2011-04-27T17:53:41Z
2011-04-27T17:53:41Z
2010-02-17
 
Type Presentation
Recording, oral
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1773/16529
 
Language en_US
 
Relation 2010 Annual Review of Research;Lundquist
 
Institute of Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Humanities Greater Western Library Alliance