[MCN] Confirmed, again: Logging can affect runoff, erosion, streams, future forest

[Lance Olsen]

Logging can decrease water infiltration into forest soils, study finds
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
Public Release: 17-Aug-2016

Researchers have found that logging operations can negatively affect 
soil density and water infiltration within forests, particularly 
along makeshift logging roads and landing areas where logs are stored 
before being trucked to sawmills.

JOURNAL
Geoderma

Original U of Missouri release
http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2016/0817-logging-can-decrease-water-infiltration-into-forest-soils-study-finds/

Excerpt:

"We found that along these logging roads and landing areas, the soil 
was more dense and compact with slower water infiltration than in the 
surrounding, untouched areas of the forest," Anderson said. "This can 
cause many environmental challenges in forests because dense soil 
prevents rainwater from soaking in; rather, this water will run off 
and cause erosion. This erosion can carry fertile topsoil away from 
forests, which enters streams and makes it difficult for those 
forests being logged to regenerate with new growth as well as 
polluting surface water resources."
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  3 from Nature's Special Issue on coasts.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
  Nature
Humans threaten wetlands' ability to keep pace with sea-level rise
Left to themselves, coastal wetlands can withstand rapid levels of 
sea-level rise. But humans could be sabotaging some of their best 
defenses, according to a Nature review paper published Thursday from 
from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Smithsonian 
Environmental Research Center.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
  Nature
Sea level rise and shoreline changes are lead influences on floods 
from tropical cyclones
Writing in the current special issue of Nature dedicated to coastal 
regions, UMass Amherst geoscientist Woodruff, with co-authors 
Jennifer Irish of Virginia Tech University and Suzana Camargo of 
Columbia University, say, "Society must learn to live with a rapidly 
evolving shoreline that is increasingly prone to flooding from 
tropical cyclones."

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
Nature
Sea-level rise to drive coastal flooding, regardless of changes in 
hurricane activity
Clamor about whether climate change will cause increasingly 
destructive tropical storms may be overshadowing a more unrelenting 
threat to coastal property -- sea-level rise -- according to a team 
of researchers writing in the journal Nature this week.










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