Author： Rothacher Jack S.
Publisher： Society of American Foresters
ISSN： 0022-1201
Source： Journal of Forestry, Vol.51, Iss.10, 1953-10, pp. : 731-738
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Abstract
Fifteen years of protection and reforestation have so improved the forest cover of 1,715-acre White Hollow watershed in eastern Tennessee that the summer peak flows have been reduced 73 to 92 percent; the duration of summer storm runoff has been prolonged up to 500 percent. A more sustained flow has resulted without any material change in total water yield. The original forest cover has increased in volume from 4,444,000 to 7,104,000 board feet. Natural and planted stands have so controlled erosion on open lands that White Creek now maintains a flow of clear water suitable for rearing trout.
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