Stream water Quality changes following timber harvest in a coastal plain swamp forest

摘要

The Goshen swamp, a fourth order blackwater creek in southeastern North Carolina, was clearcut of 130 acres of riparian and seasonally flooded forest in late May through September 1998. Downstream water quality had been monitored monthly for 2 1/2 years before the clearcut, during the Clearcut, and for two years following the clearcut. The objective of this paper was to test the hypothesis That clearcutting in the Goshen Swamp watershed negatively impacted downstream water quality.