Issues in Managing Erosion: The Spring Timber Sale Case Study El Rito Tanger District, Carson National Forest, New Mexico

Authors

Neil W. Gray, University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

Summer 2000

Abstract

The effect of logging, within the Carson National Forest in the Upper Rio Grande Basin of north central New Mexico, on soil erosion rates and downstream water quality and quantity within the acequia systems of the rios Tusas, Vallecitos and Ojo Caliente. Complicating the situation is that the Rio Tusas, of which Spring Creek is a tributary, has been identified as not meeting state water quality standards. The probable source of pollutant/threat is assessed as "rangeland agriculture" and the causes of non-support or threat status is "turbidity, siltation, reduction of riparian vegetation, streambank destabilization" (NMWQCC, 1998).

Keywords

logging, Carson National Forest, Rio Grande Basin, soil erosion, water quality

Recommended Citation

Gray, Neil W.. "Issues in Managing Erosion: The Spring Timber Sale Case Study El Rito Tanger District, Carson National Forest, New Mexico." (2000). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wr_sp/212