Coweeta’s influences reach beyond its watershed boundary

Abstract

1934, near the small town of Otto, NC, the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, established the Coweeta Experimental Forest (later renamed the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory) (Ice and Stednick 2004, Lehman 2009). Much of the early scientific knowledge about how forests influence watershed water cycles was produced from studies at Coweeta. Indeed, much of today’s forest hydrology science—the study of water movement in forests—originated from the research at Coweeta and other experimental forests across the United States (Ice and Stednick 2004).

Parent Publication

• Celebrating 100 years of forest science: an abridged history of the Southern Research Station

Citation

Sun, Ge. 2023. Coweeta’s influences reach beyond its watershed boundary. In: Bragg, Don, C., ed. Celebrating 100 years of forest science: an abridged history of the Southern Research Station. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-272. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 173-179.