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Forest soils act much like a blotter by filtering microscopic or ganisms from the water. In fact, the closer natural water is to the forest, the cleaner it is, which ex plains why municipal reservoirs are located as close as possible to the forest, collecting water at its cleanest point. The forest also regulates the flow of water. Thanks to trees and woody vegetation, the forest floor becomes an enormous sponge, typically absorbing up to 18 inch- WAIVER TILL SEPT. 30, ’92 OR LOW RATE FINANCING • 0% - 12 Mo. • 7.9%-24 Mo. • 9.9%-36 Mo. At Participating Dealers BN 6000 Belt Feeder Let Badger solve your feeding problems with the new heavy-duty BN 6000 Belt Feeder/Conveyor. It’s the perfect combination of Badger strength, simplicity, toughness and common sense plus all this: ■ Single motor drive for both belt and plow ■ Heavy-duty drive unit stands up to tough conditions ■ “Flow-thru" plow handles over 65 bushels of feed per minute ■ Snub roller design reduces belt slippage ■ Three feeding levels from manual to fully automatic ■ Select feed individual rations to different groups of cattle. "labCes ■ Heavy duty chipper wheel shaves silo wall clean CHIDESTER FARMS RD 2. Box 75 Kingsley, PA 18826 (717) 280-4260 MeMILLEN BROS. RD 1 Box 134 Loysvlllc, PA 17047 (717) 789-3061 SOMERSET BARN EQ. R.D. #5 Somerset, PA 15501 (814) 445-5555 es of precipitation before gradual ly releasing it into natural chan nels and watercourses. In this way, forests slow the volume of rainwater discharged into streams and rivers immediate ly after a rainstorm or snowfall. That reduces the harmful “peak” discharge which causes erosion and sedimentation. Not all watersheds are forested. Any higher elevation land that feeds water into creeks and streams is a watershed. But pas ture or farmland watersheds don’t "lean, store, and regulate water as HONESDALE SPREADING SERVICE INC. 505 Cliff St. Honesdale, PA 18431 (717) 253-2410 HEFLIN SALES & SERVICE 12312 Oak Hill Rd. Woodtboro, MD 21798 (301) 898-3233 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 12, 1992-C3 well as forest soils. Picture the difference between watering your lawn and watering your sidewalk, and you get some idea of the advantages of forested watersheds. Your lawn slowly ab sorbs the water and holds it as needed; your sidewalk sheds the water in torrents. Much like your lawn, a forest will supply an even flow of water, even in a dry cli mate with relatively little rainfall. Without the forest, the water would flow all at once after the rain. Forested watersheds can be as small as the valley enveloping a mountain stream or as large as the Mississippi Valley watershed, which covers much of the middle third of the United States. But whether a watershed is small or large, they all have one advantage: they can be managed to regulate water supply. By removing small blocks of trees, for example, forest man agers can reduce the amount of precipitation used by the trees themselves. This allows more wa ter to pass directly into the forest floor and eventually into streams, rivers, and reservoirs. Foresters can also build a forest that is relatively water efficient. By planting hardwood trees, which use less water than ever greens, foresters can assure that more water will leave the forest and flow to populated areas badly in need of it. Foresters can also manage a watershed to influence the timing of water flows. For example, by harvesting trees on a south slope of a hill instead of a north slope, foresters can actually increase stream flow in the early spring and decrease flows in late summer. Sounds hike hocus pocus? Well, it’s really quite logical. Because the sun shines brightest on south facing slopes, removing trees there exposes the snow to direct sunlight and allows it to melt fas ter than it otherwise would. Forestry and watershed man agement have been intertwined disciplines since as far back as 1500 8.C., when the Chinese al tered their forests to regulate stream flow onto irrigated fields.
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