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Forests to Faucets 2.0
Standing on the banks of the Yadkin River in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the river tumbles peacefully by. The river water has made a long journey: it originated as rainfall deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. It flows through the Uwharrie, Sumter, and Francis Marion National Forests. It travels through Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Charleston – and into people’s faucets and to farmers’ fields.
Latest Publications
- Quantifying the role of National Forest System and other forested lands in providing surface drinking water supply for the conterminous United States
Liu, Ning; Dobbs, G. Rebecca; Caldwell, Peter V.; Miniat, Chelcy F.; Sun, Ge; Duan, Kai; Nelson, Stacy A.C.; Bolstad, Paul V.; Carlson, Christopher P. - Review and Synthesis of Estimation Strategies to Meet Small Area Needs in Forest Inventory
Dettmann, Garret T.; Radtke, Philip J.; Coulston, John W.; Green, P. Corey; Wilson, Barry T.; Moisen, Gretchen G. - Increased Precision in County-Level Volume Estimates in the United States National Forest Inventory With Area-Level Small Area Estimation
Cao, Qianqian; Dettmann, Garret T.; Radtke, Philip J.; Coulston, John W.; Derwin, Jill; Thomas, Valerie A.; Burkhart, Harold E.; Wynne, Randolph H. - Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass Using Multisource Remotely Sensed Data
Ehlers, Dekker; Wang, Chao; Coulston, John; Zhang, Yulong; Pavelsky, Tamlin; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Woodcock, Curtis; Song, Conghe. - Impacts of Multiple Hurricanes and Tropical Storms on Watershed Hydrological Processes in the Florida Panhandle
Ouyang, Ying; Grace, Johnny M.; Parajuli, Prem B.; Caldwell, Peter V.