Water Quality Protection Value - Resource Lands Assessment
- Author:
- John Wolf
- Date Created:
- January 24, 2008
The Water Quality model aims to identify forests and wetlands important in protecting water quality and sustaining watershed integrity. This "watershed value" is based on physical and biological functions that store precipitation, retain and assimilate nutrients, moderate runoff, protect soils and maintain important critical landscape functions such as those of riparian buffers.