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New Tools Indicate How Thinning and Fire Affect Forest Water Use and Boost Runoff

from University of California - Merced, July 29, 2020

New Tools Indicate How Thinning and Fire Affect Forest Water Use and Boost Runoff University of California - Merced, July 29, 2020 New research from UC Merced's Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) provides the tools to help estimate and verify those changes. The study titled "Evapotranspiration Mapping for Forest Management in California's Sierra Nevada" was recently published in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. The researchers aim was to assess change in evapotranspiration, or water mainly used by vegetation, after wildfires. Looking specifically at the Yuba and American watersheds between 1985 and 2015, they used a combination of multi-year measurements of evapotranspiration, satellite imagery and precipitation data. READ MORE

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