[MCN] Forest and water: beetle kill hasn't changed flow of streams

[Lance Olsen]

Closing paragraph, Eos, American Geophysical Union: "This 
comprehensive analysis yielded a surprising result: Rather than the 
increase predicted in earlier research, the team found little 
significant change in annual streamflow-and in one catchment, 
streamflow even declined. They attribute this major deviation to 
increased evaporation of snowpack and soil moisture as dying forests 
expose the land surface to solar radiation and wind, a topic examined 
in Biederman et al. (Water Resour. Res., 2014, 
doi:10.1002/2013WR014994). The authors use these results to highlight 
the challenges faced by land and water managers during a period of 
changing climate and widespread ecosystem disturbance. (Water 
Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2015WR017401, 2015)

Citation: Strelich, L. (2016), Bark beetles cause big tree die-offs, 
but streams flow steadily, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO047593. 
Published on 9 March 2016.
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/bark-beetles-cause-big-tree-die-offs-but-streams-flow-steadily


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In the late 1990s, the Evangelical Environmental Network helped 
shepherd the Endangered Species Act through Congress, characterizing 
it to The New York Times as the "Noah's ark of our times."

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/03/18/creation-care-evangelical-christianity-climate-change-434865.html
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"What can be said with assurance is that there is a unique and nearly 
ubiquitous compound, with the empirical formula 
H(2960)O(1480)C(1480)N(16)P(1.8)S called living matter. Its 
synthesis, on an oxidized and uncarboxylated earth, is the most 
intricate feat of chemical engineering ever performed - and the most 
delicate operation that people have ever tampered with."

Edward S. Deevey, Jr. Mineral Cycles.
Scientific American, September 1970



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