George D. Hardaway
Published: 2018-03-18
Total Pages: 28
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Excerpt from A Study of Water Yield From the Santa Fe River Watershed Since availability of water limits activities in the arid Southwest, all management aspects of the water resource must be explored. This study of the Santa Fe River watershed3 was to find out whether change in land use affected water yield, and to determine basic precipitation -runoff relation ships for that watershed. In the New Mexico portion of the Rio Grande Basin, the spruce-fir and ponderosa pine zones make up 30 percent of the land area and provide 72 percent of the streamflow. As well as supplying a major part of the water supply, these mountain areas provide the timber, much of the recreational use, two-thirds of the big-game crop, and one -third of the livestock grazing use on the National Forests in New Mexico. Management practices must be compatible with all resource uses in the area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
