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The impacts of ski slope development on stream channel morphology in the White River National Forest, Colorado, USA

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David, Gabrielle C L, Bledsoe, Brian P, Merritt, David M, and Wohl, Ellen E, The impacts of ski slope development on stream channel morphology in the White River National Forest, Colorado, USA: .

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The combined influence of tree-clearing, road construction, snowmaking, and machine-grading can cause increased flow and sediment loads along streams in or adjacent to commercial ski resorts. These changes to stream channels can increase bank failures, bed material size, pool scour, and, in extreme cases, channel incision. We used field data from the White River National Forest in Colorado, which includes several major ski resorts, to test the hypothesis that ski slope development causes a significant difference in bank stability, undercut banks, fine sediment, wood load, pool residual depth, and particle size (D84) between the ski area project streams and reference streams. We further hypothesize that the changes in a stream are mitigated [...]

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