Effects of forest management on streamflow, sediment yield, and erosion, Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds

Elizabeth Keppeler; Jack Lewis; Thomas E. Lisle

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Effects of forest management on streamflow, sediment yield, and erosion, Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Elizabeth Keppeler, Jack Lewis, Thomas E. Lisle

Year:

2003

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Renard, Kenneth G.; McElroy, Stephen A.; Gburek, William J.; Canfield, H. Evan; Scott, Russell L., eds. First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, October 27-30, 2003. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; 77-82.

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Abstract

Abstract - Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds were established in 1962 to research the effects of forest management on streamflow, sedimentation, and erosion in the rainfall-dominated, forested watersheds of north coastal California. Currently, 21 stream sites are gaged in the North Fork (473 ha) and South Fork (424 ha) of Caspar Creek. From 1971 to 1973, 65% of the timber volume in the South Fork was selectively cut and tractor yarded, and from 1985 to 1991, 50% of the North Fork basin was harvested, mostly as cable-yarded clearcuts. Three unlogged tributaries serve as controls.

Keywords

PSW4351, Caspar Creek, peak flow, sediment, erosion, landslides, timber harvest

Citation

Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Lewis, Jack; Lisle, Thomas E. 2003. Effects of forest management on streamflow, sediment yield, and erosion, Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds. In: Renard, Kenneth G.; McElroy, Stephen A.; Gburek, William J.; Canfield, H. Evan; Scott, Russell L., eds. First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, October 27-30, 2003. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; 77-82.