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A legacy of absence : Wood removal in US rivers

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

WOHL, E.
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, Etats-Unis


Description :
The focus in this paper is on rivers within the continental United States, including Alaska. Removal of natural wood rafts began in the 17th century in the eastern United States and proceeded westward with the movement of European settlers, accelerating during the 19th-century era of steamboats and floating of cut timber. Removal of the natural wood rafts likely forced many rivers from a multi-thread planform with high channel-floodplain connectivity into an alternative stable state of single-thread channels with substantially reduced overbank flow, sedimentation, and avulsions. The A. proposes that widespread removal of instream wood for steamboat routes, timber rafts, and flood control was equally significant in decreasing floodplain sedimentation and river complexity, and in causing a fundamental, extensive, and intensive change in forested river corridors throughout the United States.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Progress in physical geography, issn : 0309-1333, 2014, vol. 38, n°. 5, p. 637-663, nombre de pages : 27, Références bibliographiques : 4 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Sage Publications

Langue :
Anglais
Droits :
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