Location Name: Southend Barometer #1, Skookum Creek #1, Hydro Study #1 - SEBAR1

Parent: Skookum Experimental Watersheds - SEW

Site History:

The proposed treatment 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. The proposed treatment watershed has not been burned due to heavy heavy fuel loading (as of 2005).

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