2016-01-08 Will vegetation management boost our water supply?
Description
Vegetation management (thinning) has gotten a lot of press lately. Historically, thinning has been a tool to reduce the threat of uncontrollable, damaging wildfires. However, the Upper Verde River Watershed Protection Coalition (Coalition) now proposes thinning as a technique to increase the fraction of precipitation that recharges our aquifers. Is this expensive activity worth considering?
To learn more, view a pdf of CWAG's monthly column in the Daily Courier, published January 8, 2016.