Understory

The Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed, located in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest, has been continuously studied since its establishment in 1962 as a collaboration between the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW). The Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed has conducted thus far, two long-term research experiments. The primary goal of the first two experiments (1962-85, 1985-present) was to understand the effect of timber harvest on streamflow and suspended sediment concentrations in coastal-...

Congratulations! You’ve launched your stewardship survey, and that’s a major accomplishment. Now you’re ready to start thinking about what to do with all that awesome data, and this guide is here to help. Specifically, you’ve reached the MAPping part of your STEW-MAP project, and in order to look at the spatial relationship among stewardship organizations, their descriptions of where they do their work – their Turf – will need to be drawn on the map (this is separate from the address they give as their office location).

Since their establishment in 1962, the Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds have provided foresters, land managers, researchers, and citizens with information that has influenced forest management in northwestern California. The primary goal in establishing Caspar Creek was to understand how harvesting timber could affect streamflow and suspended sediment concentrations (SSC). The first experiment (1962-1985) was a classic paired-watershed study undertaken before the implementation of the modern California Forest Practice Rules (FPRs): roads were constructed in the South Fork and 60-70% of the...