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I've visited Grouse Creek in California where alder is recapturing 

 soil deposits from landslides which occurred during the 1964 

 floods. I've seen the remarkable watershed recovery in Needle 

 Branch Basin in Oregon and the careful harvesting in the Bull Run 

 Watershed near Portland, Oregon. I've toured the Middle Santiam 

 where intensive harvesting has resulted in little water quality 

 change. I'm cooperating on a project in the Mica Creek Watershed 

 in Idaho where corduroy roads up streams, flumes, and splash dams 

 were used to yard out trees in the 1930 's and today those effects 

 are muted. Because of improved operations and use of BMPs, 

 conservative watershed management protection programs, stream and 

 watershed restoration efforts, and the natural recovery of stream 

 and watershed systems, I must conclude that forest watershed health 

 is better today than it has been in 30 years and that it will 

 continue to improve. 



LITERATURE CITED 



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 Idaho's Salmon River" In Material Presented at the West Coast 

 Regional Meeting September 30. October 1. 1992. General 

 Session . 156-157, NCASI Special Report 92-13 (November 1992). 



(2) Thomas, G. , "Status Report: Bull Trout in Montana", Prepared 

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(3) Binkley, D. , MacDonald, L. , "Forests as Non-Point Sources of 

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(4) Moring, J.R., "The Alsea Watershed Study: Effects of Logging 

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(5) "Catalog of Landslide Inventories for the Northwest" NCASI 

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