Location Name: Southend Barometer air and precipitation - SEBARAIR

Parent: Skookum Experimental Watersheds - SEW

Site History:

The air temperature and precipitation monitoring site 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:

Plateau

Hydrology:

Snow-melt dominated

Vegetation:

Mixed conifer/dry forest

Climate:

Continental