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General Technical Report

Title: Proceedings of the IUFRO technical session on geomorphic hazards in managed forests: 5-11 August 1990: Montreal, Canada

Author: Rice, Raymond M., technical coordinator

Date: 1991

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-130, Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 82 p.

Station ID: GTR-PSW-130

Description: The proceedings contains 11 the 17 papers presented at the technical session on geometric hazards in managed forests at the XIX World Congress, International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, August 5-11, 1990, Montreal, Canada, plus one paper not presented orally. Two papers report research on torrents, two are about snow, three concern landslides, and five discuss watershed management problems.

Key Words: natural disasters, torrent control, watershed management, landslides, snow, avalanches, floods, erosion

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Contents

Front Matter 456 KB

Severe snow loads on mountain afforestation in Japan 355 KB
Nitta, Ryuzo; Ozeki, Yoshio; Niwano, Shoichi

Priority setting for government investment in forestry conservation schemes-an example from New Zealand 216 KB O'Loughlin, Colin L.

Effect of tree roots on shallow-seated landslides 428 KB
Abe, Kazutoki Abe; Ziemer, Robert R.

Watershed concerns and recent policy formulations in Sri Lanka and Australia 663 KB
Ekanayake, Rohan

Surrounding the consequences of watershed disasters in the periphery of the Indian triangle 287 KB
Ekanayake, Rohan

High-speed high-stress ring shear tests on granular sods and clayey soils 553 KB
Fukuoka, Hiroshi; Sassa, Kyoji

Morphological study on the prediction of the site of surface slides 265 KB
Hiura, Hiromasa

Experimental Study on Impact Load on a Dam Due to Debris Flow 265 KB
Miyoshi, lwao

Sediment dynamics of a high gradient stream in the Oi river basin of Japan 406 KB
Maita, Hideji

Snow-cover condition in Japan and damage of the Sugi (Cryptomeria Japonica D. Don) 358 KB
Hideaki, Taira

Study on shearing force and impact force of a volcanic mud flow on Mt. Sakurajima 391 KB
Taniguchi, Yoshinobu

Research of wind erosion intensity in the region of Subotica-Horgos sands 205 KB
Velasevic, Velizar; Letic, Ljubomir

Citation

Rice, Raymond M., technical coordinator 1991. Proceedings of the IUFRO technical session on geomorphic hazards in managed forests: 5-11 August 1990: Montreal, Canada Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-130, Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 82 p.