“…Managing the biomass in these forests may afford opportunities to optimize tradeoffs among wood products, water yield, and other services (González‐Sanchis et al., 2019; C. N. Jones et al., 2018). However, while incentive and payment‐for‐ecosystem‐services (PES) programs have been developed to support carbon sequestration (Jayachandran et al., 2017), habitat provisioning (Tuanmu et al., 2016), and water quality protection (Kreye et al., 2014) in forests, efforts to optimize water quantity (e.g., hydrological easements or “payment for water yield” programs) have been slower to develop (Susaeta et al., 2017). This lag is due, at least in part, to uncertainties about the relationships among forest structure, climate variation, and dynamic water yield (McNulty et al., 2018).…”