Drought on the Bogard Ranger District, Lassen National Forest

Abstract

Three of the five years from 1959 to 1963 were drought years in the Bogard Ranier District in northeastern California. Precipitation records for 28 years from the Bogard area show that (a) drought conditions were present in one-third of the years; (b) drought occurred in about 54 percent of the falls and springs, 36 percent or the winters, and 50 percent or the summers; and (c) in 42 percent of the years at least two of the three main seasons (fall, winter, spring) were dry.

Citation

Ratliff, Raymond D.; Reppert, Jack N. 1965. Drought on the Bogard Ranger District, Lassen National Forest. Res. Note PSW-RN-080. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 5 p