Riparian study plan for the T3 watershed experiment

Kyle D. Martens; Bernard Bormann; Teodora V Minkova; Deanna H. Olson; Stephen M. Bollens; David Butman; Peter M. Kiffney; Kevin Alexander; Martin Liermann

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Riparian study plan for the T3 watershed experiment

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Authors:

Kyle D. Martens, Bernard Bormann, Teodora V Minkova, Deanna H. Olson, Stephen M. Bollens, David Butman, Peter M. Kiffney, Kevin Alexander, Martin Liermann

Year:

2021

Type:

Miscellaneous

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

Source:

Washington Department of Natural Resources. Technical Report. Riparian study plan for the T3 watershed experiment. 62 p.

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Abstract

This study represents a major new collaboration between two State of Washington institutions, the WA Department of Natural Resources (WADNR) and the University of Washington (UW)’s Olympic Natural Resource Center (ONRC), and other key academic and federal research agencies. This multi-agency experiment, called the Type-3 Watershed Experiment, was developed to assess the impacts of current and alternative forest management strategies on a holistic vision of ecosystem wellbeing (with co-equal weighting of both environment and community wellbeing). The core question of the experiment is “Will a higher, sustainable level of rural ecosystem wellbeing emerge from an array of land management strategies implemented and compared across the Olympic Experimental State Forest (OESF) landscape?” The experiment is designed to go beyond the scope of most previous studies on forest harvesting effects in its evaluation of the integrated responses of social science, upland silviculture, forest operations, and riparian zones and streams. This riparian study plan focuses on the riparian and stream component.

Keywords

Stream-riparian buffers, fish, water quality, timber harvest

Citation

Martens, Kyle D.; Bormann, Bernard T.; Minkova, Teodora V.; Olson, Deanna H.; Bollens, Stephen M.; Butman, David; Kiffney, Peter M.; Alexander, Kevin; Liermann, Martin. 2021. Riparian study plan for the T3 watershed experiment. Technical Report. Washington Department of Natural Resources. 62 p.