Location Name: Southend Barometer #2, Skookum Creek #2, Hydro Study #2 - SEBAR2

Parent: Skookum Experimental Watersheds - SEW

Site History:

The control watershed was established in spring, 1992 to study the effect of timber harvest on water quality. The focus changed to prescribed fire effects in the mid 1990’s.

Landform:

Clarno and John Day tuffs and breccias

Soils:

Volcanic ash influenced silt loam

Geology:

Valley Bottom

Hydrology:

Snow-melt dominated

Vegetation:

Mixed conifer/dry forest

Climate:

Continental