Issue:  Two-thirds of the nations’ runoff comes from forested lands, providing a clean and dependable water supply, the most valuable ecosystem service provided by NFS lands.  Therefore, it is important that we understand the effects of intended forest management such as timber harvest and fuel load reductions, or unintended forest cover loss from wildfire, insects or diseases and other disturbances  on water yield and water quality.  National Forest land managers and planners need to know about the short and long-term effects of natural and human-caused disturbances on important ecosystem services in order to manage their lands responsibly.  
See the full abstract for this seminar

How to participate:

1. View the presentation at http://stream.fs.fed.us/wss/wss1/pres.html

If this is slow, try http://www.watershed.org/wss1

If you would like to download the slides for offline viewing, see the WSS web page for a downloadable version. Note, if your connection is slow, load all the slides into your browser before the presentation, putting them into your webpage cache. A thumbnail bar showing the slides and their numbers is at the bottom of the screen: you might need to scroll down to see these.

Download for offline viewing

2. Listen to the live presentation via toll-free ‘listen-only’ conference call:

1-800-857-7001, enter participant code 5095948
(the Seminar Facilitator is Sherry Hazelhurst).

The presentation will be about 40 minutes beginning 1:30 Eastern Time, followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A.

3. Submit your questions during the presentation to Seminar Facilitator: Sherry Hazelhurst (Water Quality Program Leader, WO) via email (shazelhurst@fs.fed.us) or using Sametime instant-messaging. Sherry will relay questions to the presenter. Please replicate immediately after sending a question.

A web page for the Watershed Seminar Series may be found here:

http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/wss

Watershed Seminar Series Number 1. 11/6/2006