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Title: "So what, exactly, is a CWE?"

Author: "Reid, Leslie M."

Date: 1991

Source: Watershed Management Council Newsletter 3(4): 1.

Description: "It has been 20 years since cumulative effects were statutorially defined, yet people still ask me what they are. And I don't mean just anyone - these are watershed specialists and researchers who work with cumulative watershed effects (CWEs) almost daily. The confusion is ironic, since ""cumulative impact"" is one of the few technical terms that has been saddled with a legal definition. According to the Council on Environmental Quality's interpretation of the National Environmental Policy Act, ""Cumulative impact"" is the impact on the environment which results from the incremental impact of the action when added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions regardless of what agency...or person undertakes such other actions. (CEQ Guidelines, 40 CFR 1508.7, issued 23 April 1971)"

Keywords: "PSW4351, watershed, cumulative watershed effects, cumulative impact"

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"Reid, Leslie M."  1991.  "So what, exactly, is a CWE?".   Watershed Management Council Newsletter 3(4): 1..