HYDROLOGY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF WATERSHEDS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DEFINITION OF TERMS -- PART 1 Watersheds, Hydrologic Processes, and Pathways -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- OVERVIEW -- WATERSHEDS -- Watersheds and Stream Orders -- A Geomorphologic Perspective -- Watershed Assessments -- INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT -- SUSTAINABLE USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES -- Land and Water Scarcity -- Coping with Hydrometeorological Extremes -- WATERSHEDS, ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT, AND CUMULATIVE EFFECTS -- RECONCILING WATERSHED AND POLITICAL BOUNDARIES -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 2 Hydrologic Cycle and the Water Budget -- INTRODUCTION -- PROPERTIES OF WATER -- Importance of Polarity -- State of Water -- THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE -- Hydrologic Processes -- Water Budget -- ENERGY AND THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE -- Radiation -- Energy Budget -- Energy and the Flow of Liquid Water -- WATER FLOW IN SOIL -- WATER FLOW ON LAND AND IN STREAM CHANNELS -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 Precipitation -- INTRODUCTION -- PRECIPITATION PROCESS -- RAINFALL -- Methods of Rainfall Measurement -- Number of Gauges Required -- Calculating Mean Rainfall on a Watershed -- Errors Associated with Rainfall Measurement -- Analysis of Rainfall Measurements -- SNOWFALL -- Methods of Snowfall Measurement -- Analysis of Snowfall Measurements -- Snowmelt -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 4 Evaporation, Interception, and Transpiration -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EVAPORATION PROCESS -- EVAPORATION FROM WATER BODIES -- EVAPORATION FROM SOIL SURFACES -- INTERCEPTION -- Components of Interception -- Interception Process -- Hydrologic Importance of Interception -- TRANSPIRATION -- Measurement of Transpiration -- Transpiration and Interception Relationships -- Effects of Vegetative Cover.

POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION -- ESTIMATING ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION -- Evapotranspiration/Potential Evapotranspiration Approach -- Water Budget Approach -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 Infiltration, Pathways of Water Flow, and Recharge -- INTRODUCTION -- INFILTRATION -- Infiltration Capacity -- Measurement of Infiltration -- Infiltration Equations -- Land-use Impacts on Infiltration -- Water-Repellent Soils -- Soil Frost -- PATHWAYS OF WATER FLOW -- Groundwater Recharge -- Water Flow into Stream Channels -- Streamflow Regimes -- Streamflow Hydrograph -- Hillslope Hydrology -- Variable Source Area Concept -- Factors Affecting Stormflow Response -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 Streamflow Measurement and Analysis -- INTRODUCTION -- MEASUREMENT OF STREAMFLOW -- Measuring Discharge -- Precalibrated Structures for Streamflow Measurement -- Monitoring Streamflow in the United States -- Obtaining Discharge Information on Ungauged Streams -- METHODS FOR ESTIMATING STREAMFLOW CHARACTERISTICS -- Direct Transfer of Streamflow Information -- Estimating Peak Discharge -- Stormflow Response -- Analysis of Recession Flows -- Computer Simulation Models -- Streamflow Routing -- Streamflow-Frequency Analysis -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 7 Groundwater and Groundwater- Surface Water Exchange -- INTRODUCTION -- GROUNDWATER -- Basic Concepts -- Storage and Movement of Groundwater -- Groundwater Development -- Effects of Vegetation on Groundwater -- GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER EXCHANGES -- Linkage to Streams and Riparian Areas -- Linkage to Lakes -- Linkage to Wetlands -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- PART 2 Physical, Chemical, and Biological Linkages of Water Flow -- CHAPTER 8 Soil Erosion Processes and Control -- INTRODUCTION -- SURFACE SOIL EROSION.

Wind Erosion -- Surface Erosion by Water -- Preventing and Controlling Surface Erosion -- EROSION FROM GULLIES AND RAVINES -- Gully Erosion Process -- Gully Control -- Cumulative Effects of Gully Erosion -- SOIL MASS MOVEMENT -- Processes -- Factors Affecting Hillslope Stability -- Evaluating the Stability of Hillslopes -- Reducing Impacts of Soil Mass Movement -- Cumulative Effects of Soil Mass Movement -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- RUSLE2 WEBSITES -- USLE WEBSITES -- CHAPTER 9 Sediment Supply, Transport, and Yield -- INTRODUCTION -- SEDIMENT SUPPLY AND TRANSPORT -- Sources of Sediment -- Energy Relationships of Streams -- Sediment Movement -- MEASUREMENT OF SEDIMENT -- Suspended Sediment -- Bed Load -- Total Sediment -- SEDIMENT YIELD -- Sediment Budgets -- Sediment Delivery Ratio -- CUMULATIVE WATERSHED EFFECTS ON SEDIMENT YIELD -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10 Fluvial Processes and Implications for Stream Management -- INTRODUCTION -- FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY -- Rivers, Floods, and Floodplains -- Bankfull Stage -- The Floodplain -- VALLEY AND STREAM EVALUATION AND CLASSIFICATION -- Valley Classification Systems -- Stream Channel Stability -- STREAM CLASSIFICATION -- Rosgen's Stream Classification -- Continuum Concept -- Stream Channel Succession -- Interpretations of Stream Classification -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 11 Water-Quality Characteristics -- INTRODUCTION -- CHEMISTRY OF PRECIPITATION -- Acid Precipitation and Atmospheric Chemical Constituents -- Atmospheric Deposition of Mercury -- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SURFACE WATER -- Suspended Sediment -- Thermal Pollution -- Dissolved Oxygen -- Biochemical and Chemical Oxygen Demands -- Field-Measured Indicators and Other Physical Characteristics of Water Quality.

DISSOLVED CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS -- Sources of Nutrients -- Transport Processes -- BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS -- Bacteria -- Protozoa -- Aquatic Biota as Indicators of Surface-Water Quality -- GROUNDWATER QUALITY -- CUMULATIVE EFFECTS -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- PART 3 Integrated Watershed Management -- CHAPTER 12 Managing Wildland Watersheds -- INTRODUCTION -- FORESTS -- Forest Management and Water Yield -- Forest Management and Streamflow Regimen -- Water Quality -- WOODLANDS -- Water Yield -- Woodlands and Streamflow Regimen -- Water Quality -- RANGELANDS -- Vegetative Manipulations and Water Yield -- Stormflow Response to Management -- Water Quality -- UPLAND-DOWNSTREAM CONSIDERATIONS -- Losses of Water En Route Downstream -- Upstream-Downstream Flooding Relationships -- Linkages to Reservoirs -- CUMULATIVE WATERSHED EFFECTS -- Water Yield and Streamflow Regimen -- Water Quality -- Assessing Environmental Flows -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 13 Managing Riparian Communities and Wetlands -- INTRODUCTION -- RIPARIAN COMMUNITIES -- Characteristics of a Healthy Riparian Community -- Riparian-Watershed Linkages -- Riparian Management -- WETLANDS -- Wetland Hydrology -- Wetlands and Water Quality -- Wetlands and Integrated Watershed Management -- CUMULATIVE EFFECTS -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14 Watershed Management Issues -- INTRODUCTION -- FRAGMENTATION OF WATERSHED LANDSCAPES -- Conversion to Agricultural Croplands -- Conversion to Urban Developments -- WATER HARVESTING -- Water-Harvesting Systems -- Catchment Areas -- Water Storage Facility -- Feasibility of Water Harvesting -- BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES -- Synthesis of BMPs -- Effectiveness of BMPs -- Further Information on BMPs -- REGULATORY COMPLIANCE -- Federal Regulations -- State Regulations.

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY -- Impacts on Water Resources -- Planning Protocols for Coping with Climatic Variability -- Further Information on Climatic Variability -- INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKING -- Sources of Short-Term Information -- Obtaining Long-Term Information -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- WEBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 15 Socioeconomic Considerations in Integrated Watershed Management -- INTRODUCTION -- POLICIES AND POLICY PROCESSES -- A Policy and Its Components -- The Policy Processes -- A Watershed Management Framework and Its Policy Implications -- PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION -- An Overview of Planning for IWM -- Steps in the Planning Process -- Evaluating Past Activities and Identifying Problems and Opportunities -- Establishing Objectives, Identifying Constraints, Developing Strategies -- Identifying Alternative Ways to Implement the Strategy -- Appraising Alternatives -- Recommending Action -- Planning as a Continuous Process -- ECONOMIC APPRAISALS -- Distinction between Economic and Financial Efficiencies -- Time Value of Money, Discount Rate, Present Value -- Steps in the Economic Appraisal Process -- Nonmonetary Benefits and Costs -- Application of the Economic Appraisal Process -- SUMMARY AND LEARNING POINTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16 Tools and Emerging Technologies -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERALIZED HYDROLOGIC SIMULATION MODELS -- Development -- Examples of Generalized Hydrologic Simulation Models -- Forest Hydrology Simulation Models -- TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED TOOLS -- Remote-Sensing Platforms -- Geographic Information Systems -- Global Positioning System -- Decision-Support Systems -- Internet Applications -- Remote-Sensing Technologies -- Advanced Geographic Information Systems and Geovisualization -- Multisensor Networks -- USING THE STABLE ISOTOPES OF HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN.

Stable Isotopes and Minnesota Lakes.