This newest research, co-authored by Spencer Pearson-Atkins, Younes Alila, and Xu Jian Yu, supports longstanding claims that commercial forestry intensifies negative hydrology; it especially mentions droughts and floods in the Okanagan.
Journal article via ScienceDirect.
News story via The Conversation.
“We studied a watershed on the west shore of Lake Okanagan near Summerland, British Columbia. Around 40 per cent of the site experienced logging. This watershed is no exception, as B.C.’s landscape has become dominated by clear-cut logging.
We found that, without logging, flood risk due to reduced snow melt was decreasing. But after logging, this was reversed, leading to significant upward trend in flood risk.“
The article is technical and takes time to read through. The news story link is a helpful summary of the journal article.
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