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General Technical Report

Title: Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story

Author: Ziemer, Robert R.; [technical coordinator]

Date: 1998

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, California: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 149 p.

Station ID: GTR-PSW-168

Description: These proceedings report on 36 years of research at the Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed, Jackson Demonstration State Forest in northwestern California. The 16 papers include discussions of streamflow, sediment production and routing, stream channel condition, soil moisture and subsurface water, nutrient cycling, aquatic and riparian habitat, streamside buffers, cumulative effects, monitoring. A detailed annotated bibliography of 107 papers from Caspar Creek is included

Key Words: cumulative effects, nutrient, paired-watersheds, riparian, sediment, soil moisture, streamflow

Contents

Front Matter, Table of Contents, and Preface 385 KB

Overview of the Caspar Creek Watershed Study 143 KB
Norm Henry

Why Caspar Creek–Then and Now 143 KB
Raymond M. Rice

Flooding and Stormflows 330 KB
Robert R. Ziemer

Subsurface Drainage Processes and Management Impacts 550 KB
Elizabeth T. Keppeler and David Brown

The Summer Flow and Water Yield Response to Timber Harvest 187 KB
Elizabeth T. Keppeler

Effects of Forest Harvest on Stream-Water Quality and Nitrogen Cycling in the Caspar Creek Watershed 187 KB
Randy A. Dahlgren

Evaluating the Impacts of Logging Activities on Erosion and Suspended Sediment Transport in the Caspar Creek Watersheds 297 KB
Jack Lewis

Buffering the Buffer 176 KB
Leslie M. Reid and Sue Hilton

Effects of Recent Logging on the Main Channel of North Fork Caspar Creek 165 KB
Thomas E. Lisle and Michael B. Napolitano

Effects of Timber Harvest on Aquatic Vertebrates and Habitat in the North Fork Caspar Creek 165 KB
Rodney J. Nakamoto

Persistence of Historical Logging Impacts on Channel Form in Mainstem North Fork Caspar Creek 88 KB
Michael B. Napolitano

Logging Impacts of the 1970's vs. the 1990's in the Caspar Creek Watershed 198 KB
Peter H. Cafferata and Thomas E. Spittler

Cumulative Watershed Effects: Caspar Creek and Beyond 132 KB
Leslie M. Reid

Monitoring Watersheds and Streams 121 KB
Robert R. Ziemer

Where Do We Go from Here? 44 KB
Raymond M. Rice

Publications Related to Caspar Creek 132 KB
Ingrid Morken and Robert R. Ziemer

Back Cover 158 KB

Citation

Ziemer, Robert R.; [technical coordinator] 1998. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, California: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 149 p.