Louise E Mathews

Biographic Data

ID5234426
NAMELouise E Mathews
GIVEN NAMESLouise E
FAMILY NAMEMathews
SIGNATUREMATHEWS L E
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Department of Agriculture
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
H-INDEX0

  • Hillslope Runoff and Soil Erosion Following Reforestation in the Copper Basin, Tennessee, USA

    Open AccessCarol P Harden, Louise E MathewsARTICLEAustralian Geographical Studies2002

    The landscape of the 130 km 2 Copper Basin, in the southeastern USA, became extremely degraded during more than a century of logging, mining, acidification, grazing, and fire. In the twentieth century, the Copper Basin became the focus of a series of reforestation programs and is now largely tree‐covered again. To investigate the effects of over 50 years of reforestation efforts, we developed a space‐for‐time substitution and conducted rainfall s…

  • Years of Environmental Degradation and Reclamation in the Copper Basin, Tennessee

    Louise E Mathews, Louise Mathews et al.ARTICLESoutheastern geographer1999

    The Copper Basin, Tennessee, is unique in the southeastern United States for the extent and persistence of its treeless landscape. Reclamation has been slow and costly, but the basin has finally lost the appearance of a desert and is now green again. Reviewing the environmental history of the Copper Basin since 1847, we find a treeless landscape to have resulted and persisted due to a set of interrelated human activities that included grazing, bu…