Many people realize that our Pacific Northwest forestlands produce much of our drinking water. And that likely holds true for other areas as well.
Mike Cloughesy of the Oregon Forest Resources Institute sent me information on two OFRI reports. One is a more technical report, Municipal Water Supplies from Forest Watersheds in Oregon: Fact Book and Catalog, by Paul Adams and Mark Taratoot, which I will post here:
Download muni_water_supply_report_adams_taratoot_01.pdf
The other is a brief, glossy, magazine-style pamphlet based on the aforementioned report, Drinking Water & Forestry: How a Healthy Forest Ecosystem Helps Keep Streams Clean and Water Quality High that you can download here.
“Historically, forest managers have not focused much of their attention on water, and water managers have not focused on forests. But today’s water problems demand that these groups work together closely." -- Julia Jones, Professor of Geosciences at Oregon State University, and vice chair of a committee of the National Research Council, which just released a report on the hydrologic effects of a changing forest landscape.
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