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Water & Watersheds: Caspar Creek Watershed Study

Publications Related to Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds:

Abe, Kazutoki; Kurokawa, Ushio; Ziemer, Robert R. 2000. Prediction method of sediment discharge from forested basin. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 81(48): F487.

Albright, Jeffrey S. 1992. Storm hydrograph comparisons of subsurface pipe and stream channel discharge in a small, forested watershed in northern California. Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University; 118 p. M.S. thesis.

Anderson, H.W. 1960. Proposed program for watershed management research in the lower conifer zone of California. Tech. Paper 46. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 21 p.

Anonymous. 1964. Effects of logging on streamflow, sedimentation, fish life, and fish habitat in the north coast redwood-Douglas-fir type - Jackson State Forest, Fort Bragg, California. Pages 1-6, in: Second progress report 1963-1964, cooperative watershed management in the lower conifer zone of California. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 19 p.

Anonymous. 1970. Timber harvest and logging plan for the South Fork of the Caspar Creek watershed. Unpublished report, Jackson State Forest, Fort Bragg, California. May 7, 1970. 14 p.

Anonymous. 1987. Caspar Creek: discovering how watersheds respond to logging. Forestry Research West, August 1987. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Anonymous. 1988. Caspar Creek: how a northwestern California watershed responds to logging. Luba Productions. 20-minute video.[Available from USDA Forest Service Video Library]

Anonymous. 1993. Caspar Creek phase II: discovering how watersheds respond to logging. Revised December 1993 from an article appearing in Forestry Research West, August 1987. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Anonymous. 1995. Stream Inventory Report, Caspar Creek. Unpublished report, Watershed Stewards Project, AmeriCorps, Fortuna, California. 11 p. [68 KB]

Anonymous. 1995. Stream Inventory Report, Caspar Creek (North Fork). Unpublished report, Watershed Stewards Project, AmeriCorps, Fortuna, California. 32 p. [1755 KB]

Anonymous. 1995. Stream Inventory Report, Unnamed Caspar Creek Tributary (South Fork Caspar Creek). Unpublished report, Watershed Stewards Project, AmeriCorps, Fortuna, California. 31 p. [2107 KB]

Anonymous. 1995. Stream Inventory Report, Unnamed Caspar Creek Tributary (Middle Fork Caspar Creek). Unpublished report, Watershed Stewards Project, AmeriCorps, Fortuna, California. 10 p. [67 KB]

Anonymous. 1999. Stream Inventory Report, Caspar Creek, Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Mendocino County, September 1999. Unpublished report, California Department of Fish and Game, Northern California and North Coast Region, Fortuna, California. 52 p. [2263 KB]

Barnhart, Roger A. 1969. Caspar Creek ecology project, annual report, 1968-69. Unpublished report, Humboldt State College, Arcata, California. June 30, 1969. 11 p.

Barnhart, Roger A. 1970. Caspar Creek ecology project, annual report, 1969-70. Unpublished report, Humboldt State College, Arcata, California. 9 p.

Baumann, R.W.; Bottorff, R.L. 1997. Two new species of Chloroperlidae (Plecoptera) from California. Great Basin Naturalist 57(4): 343-347.

Bottorff, Richard L.; Knight, Allen W. 1996. The effects of clearcut logging on stream biology of the North Fork of Caspar Creek, Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Fort Bragg, CA -- 1986 to 1994. Unpubl. Final Rept. prepared for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Contract No. 8CA63802. May 1996. Sacramento, CA. 177 p.

Bousfield, Gregg. 2008. Peakflow prediction using an antecedent precipitation index in small forested watersheds of the northern California coast range. M.S. Thesis, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. 67 p. [Caspar Creek] [2498 Kb]

Brown, David Lawrence. 1995. An analysis of transient flow in upland watersheds: interactions between structure and process. Berkeley, CA: University of California; 225 p. Ph.D. dissertation. [3646 KB]

Burns, David M. 1965. A summary of the Caspar Creek watershed study. Unpublished report presented to the California State Board of Forestry, Sacramento, California, 26 February 1965. 6 p.

Burns, James W. 1970. Spawning bed sedimentation studies in northern California streams. California Fish and Game 56(4): 253-270.

Burns, James W. 1971. The carrying capacity for juvenile salmonids in some northern California streams. California Fish and Game 57(1): 44-57.

Burns, James W. 1972. Some effects of logging and associated road construction on northern California streams. Transactions, American Fisheries Society 101(1): 1-17.

Cafferata, Pete. 1984. The North Fork of Caspar Creek: a cooperative venture between CDF and USFS. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 15, August 1984. p. 1-2.

Cafferata, Peter. 1987. Update on the Caspar Creek watershed study. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 27, October 1987. p. 1-4.

Cafferata, Peter. 1990. Graduate theses produced from research conducted on Jackson Demonstration State Forest. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 36, January 1990. p. 4-8.

Cafferata, Peter. 1990. Temperature regimes of small streams along the Mendocino coast. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 39, October 1990. p. 1-4.

Cafferata, Peter H.; Spittler, Thomas E. 1998. Logging impacts of the 1970's vs. the 1990's in the Caspar Creek watershed. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 103-115.

Cafferata, Peter; Walton, Karen; Jones, Weldon. 1989. Coho salmon and steelhead trout of JDSF. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 32, January 1989. p. 1-7.

California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection. 2003. The Caspar Creek Watershed Study Completes 40 Years of Research. State Forests Research and Demonstration Newsletter, Issue No. 1, June 2003. 8 pp.

Collins, Barry W. 1999. Parlin Creek large woody debris placement project. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, Volume 51, Spring/Summer 1999. p. 8-9.

Conroy, William J. 2005. A coupled upland-erosion instream hydrodynamic-sediment transport model for assessing primary impacts of forest management practices on sediment yield and delivery. Spokane, WA: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University; 211 p. Ph.D. dissertation. [1830 KB]

Dahlgren, Randy A. 1998. Effects of forest harvest on biogeochemical processes in the Caspar Creek watershed. Final report to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Agreement Number 8CA17039. December 1998. Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA. 153 p. [2474 kb]

Dahlgren, Randy A. 1998. Effects of forest harvest on stream water quality and nutrient cycling in the Caspar Creek watershed. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 45-53.

Dewey, Nicholas J. 2007. Gullies and sediment delivery at Caspar Creek, Mendocino County, California. Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University; 103 p. M.S. thesis. [3,696KB]

Dewey, Nicholas J., Thomas E. Lisle, and Leslie M. Reid. 2003. Channel incision and suspended sediment delivery at Caspar Creek, Mendocino County, California. EOS Transactions AGU 84(46), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract H52A-1159.

DeWitt, John W. 1965. Preliminary report of progress on the stream ecology phase of the Caspar Creek project, June to December, 1965. Unpublished report, Humboldt State College. June 30, 1965. 7 p.

DeWitt, John W. 1967. Annual report, 1966-67, stream ecology phase of the Caspar Creek project. Unpublished report, Humboldt State College. June 30, 1967. 18 p.

DeWitt, John W. 1968. Caspar Creek ecology project: annual report, 1967-68. Unpublished report, Humboldt State College. June 30, 1968. 20 p.

Dorn, R. 1969. Evaluation of air and water temperatures on Caspar Creek from 1965-1968. Unpubl. Rept. Cooperative Fisheries Unit, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA. 17 p.

Duan, J.; Ziemer, R.R.; Grant, G.E. 1997. Hydrologic responses of large drainage to clearcutting: a modeling perspective. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 78(46): F314.

Eads, Rand E. 1991. Controlling sediment collection with data loggers. In: Fan, Shou-Shan; Kuo, Yung-Huang, eds. Proceedings of the Fifth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, 1991 March 18-21, Las Vegas, Nevada. Washington, DC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; 2-41 to 2-48.

Eads, Rand E.; Boolootian, Mark R. 1985. Controlling suspended sediment samplers by programmable calculator and interface circuitry. Research Note PSW-376. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 8 p.

Eads, Rand E.; Boolootian, Mark R; Hankin, Steven C., inventors; United States of America, assignee. 1987. Means and method of sampling flow related variables from a waterway in an accurate manner using a programmable calculator. U.S. Patent 4,660,422. Apr. 28, 1987. 9 p. Int. Cl. G01N 1/44.

Eads, Rand; Lewis, Jack. 2001. Turbidity threshold sampling: Methods and instrumentation. Page Poster-27, in: Proceedings of the Seventh Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, 25-29 March 2001, Reno, Nevada. Federal Interagency Project, Technical Committee of the Subcommittee on Sedimentation.

Eads, Rand E.; Thomas, Robert B. 1983. Evaluation of a depth proportional intake device for automatic pumping samplers. Water Resources Bulletin 19(2): 289-292.

Ferrier, K.L., J.W. Kirchner, and R.C. Finkel. 2003. Erosion rates over millennial and decadal timescales: measurements at Caspar Creek and Redwood Creek, northern California. EOS Transactions AGU 84(46), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract H51-1133.

Fisher, Jason C. 1997. A one-dimensional model of subsurface hillslope flow. Final Report. Redwood Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Arcata, CA. 64 p.

Fisher, Jason C. 2000. Simulation of partially saturated - saturated flow in the Caspar Creek E-road groundwater system. Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University; 107 p. M.S. thesis[6233KB]

Gallagher, Sean P.; Gallagher, Colin M. 2005. Discrimination of Chinook salmon, Coho salmon and Steelhead redds and evaluation of the use of redd data for estimating escapement in several unregulated streams in northern California. American Fisheries Society. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25: 284-300.

Graves, David S.; Burns, James W. 1970. Comparison of the yields of downstream migrant salmonids before and after logging and road construction on the South Fork Caspar Creek, Mendocino County. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, CA. Inland Fisheries Admin. Rept. 70-3. 11 p.

Hardison, Karen D. 1982. Effects of timber harvesting on the lag time of a Caspar Creek watershed...a study in progress. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 8, September 1982. p 1-3.

Harvey, Bret C.; Nakamoto, Rodney J. 1996. Effects of steelhead density on growth of Coho salmon in a small coastal California stream. Transactions, American Fisheries Society 125(2): 237-243.

Harvey, Bret C.; Nakamoto, Rodney J. 1997. Habitat-dependent interactions between two size-classes of juvenile steelhead in a small stream. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54(1): 27-31.

Henry, Norm. 1991. Using global positioning system technology for watershed mapping in Caspar Creek. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 43, October 1991. p. 1-6.

Henry, Norm. 1998. Overview of the Caspar Creek watershed study. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 1-9.

Henry, Norm. 1999. New growth and yield data on Caspar third growth. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, Volume 51, Spring/Summer 1999. p. 10.

Henry, Norm; Sendek, Karen. 1985. Caspar Creek Watershed Study--North Fork Phase, Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Status and Plans, 1983-1990. California Forestry Note No. 96. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. 9 p.

Hess, Lloyd J. 1969. The effects of logging road construction on insect drop into a small coastal stream. Arcata, CA: Humboldt State College; 58 p. M.S. thesis.

Hopkins, Walt; Bowden, Kenneth L. 1962. First progress report, 1961-1962, cooperative watershed management in the lower conifer zone of California. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 10 p.

Kabel, C.S.; German, E.R. 1967. Caspar Creek study completion report. Marine Resources Branch Administrative Report No. 67-4. Sacramento, CA: The Resources Agency of California Department of Fish and Game; 27 p.

Keppeler, Elizabeth T. 1986. The effects of selective logging on low flows and water yield in a coastal stream in northern California. Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University; 137 p. M.S. thesis.

Keppeler, Elizabeth T. 1998. The summer flow and water yield response to timber harvest. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 35-43.

Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Brown, David. 1998. Subsurface drainage processes and management impacts. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 25-34.

Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Cafferata, Peter H. 1991. Hillslope hydrology research at Caspar Creek. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 41, April 1991. p. 4-8.

Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Cafferata, Peter H.; Baxter, William. 2007. State forest road 600: A riparian road decommissioning case study in Jackson Demonstration State Forest. California Forestry Note No. 120. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. 23 p.

Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Lewis, Jack; Lisle, Thomas E. 2003. Effects of forest management on streamflow, sediment yield, and erosion, Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds. In: Renard, Kenneth G.; McElroy, Stephen A.; Gburek, William J.; Canfield, H. Evan; Scott, Russell L., eds. First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, October 27-30, 2003. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; 77-82. [259 KB]

Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Ziemer, Robert R. 1990. Logging effects on streamflow: water yields and summer low flows at Caspar Creek in northwestern California. Water Resources Research 26(7): 1669-1679.

Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Ziemer, Robert R.; Cafferata, Peter H. 1994. Changes in soil moisture and pore pressure after harvesting a forested hillslope in northern California. Pages 205-214, in: Marston, Richard A., and Victor R. Hasfurther (eds). Proceedings, Annual Summer Symposium of the American Water Resources Association: Effects of Human-Induced Changes on Hydrologic Systems, June 26-29, 1994, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. American Water Resources Association, Bethesda, Maryland.

Kinerson, D.; Dietrich, William. 1990. Bed surface response to sediment supply. Berkeley, CA: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California; 420 p.

Kopperdahl, Fredric R.; Burns, James W.; Smith, Gary E. 1971. Water quality of some logged and unlogged California streams. Inland Fisheries Administrative Rept. No. 71-12. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Fish and Game; 19 p.

Krammes, J.S.; Burns, David M. 1973. Road construction on Caspar Creek watersheds -- 10-year report on impact. Research Paper PSW-93. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service; 10 p.

Lau, Michael Roy. 1994. Habitat utilization, density, and growth of steelhead trout, coho salmon, and Pacific giant salamander in relation to habitat types in a small coastal redwood stream. Davis, CA: University of California, Davis; 58 p. M.S. thesis.

Lewis, Jack. 1991. An improved bedload sampler. In: Fan, S.; Kuo, Y.H., eds. Fifth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference Proceedings, 1991 March 18-21, Las Vegas, NV. Washington, DC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; 6-1 to 6-8.

Lewis, Jack. 1996. Turbidity-controlled suspended sediment sampling for runoff-event load estimation. Water Resources Research 32(7): 2299-2310.

Lewis, Jack. 1997. Changes in storm peak flows after clearcut logging. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 78(46): F314.

Lewis, Jack. 1998. Evaluating the impacts of logging activities on erosion and sediment transport in the Caspar Creek watersheds. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 55-69.

Lewis, Jack. 2000. The potential for error in sampling. Water Environment Laboratory Solutions 7(2): 10-11.

Lewis, Jack. 2006. Fixed and mixed-effects models for multi-watershed experiments. In: Proceedings, 3rd Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Apr 2-6, 2006, Reno NV. 8 pp.

Lewis, Jack; Eads, Rand. 1996. Turbidity-controlled suspended sediment sampling. Watershed Management Council Newsletter 6(4): 1, 4-5.

Lewis, Jack; Eads, Rand. 1998. Automatic real-time control of suspended sediment based upon high frequency in situ measurements of nephelometric turbidity. In: Gray, John, and Larry Schmidt (Organizers). Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Workshop on Sediment Technology for the 21st Century, February 17-20, 1998, St. Petersburg, FL.

Lewis, Jack; Eads, Rand. 2001. Turbidity threshold sampling for suspended sediment load estimation. Pages III-110 - III-117, in: Proceedings of the Seventh Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, 25-29 March 2001, Reno, Nevada. Federal Interagency Project, Technical Committee of the Subcommittee on Sedimentation.

Lewis, Jack; Eads, Rand E.; Ziemer, Robert R. 2000. Research in the Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds, Northern California. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 81(48): F380.

Lewis, Jack; Mori, Sylvia R.; Keppeler, Elizabeth T.; Ziemer, Robert R. 2001. Impacts of logging on storm peak flows, flow volumes and suspended sediment loads in Caspar Creek, California. In: Mark S. Wigmosta and Steven J. Burges (eds.) Land Use and Watersheds: Human Influence on Hydrology and Geomorphology in Urban and Forest Areas. Water Science and Application Volume 2, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.; 85-125.

Lisle, T.E. 1979. The Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed. In: Guidebook for a field trip to observe natural and management-related erosion in Franciscan Terrane of northern California. Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America, 1979 April 9-11; San Jose, CA. Menlo Park, CA: Geological Society of America; XIV-1 to XIV-8.

Lisle, T.E. 1989. Sediment transport and resulting deposition in spawning gravels, north coastal California. Water Resources Research 25(6): 1303-1319.

Lisle, Tom. 1999. Channel processes and watershed function. Pages 4-14, in: Taylor, Ross N. (ed.). Proceedings of a Workshop, Using Stream Geomorphic Characteristics as a Long-term Monitoring Tool to Assess Watershed Function, 18-19 March 1999, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California.

Lisle, Thomas E.; Napolitano, Michael. 1998. Effects of recent logging on the main channel of North Fork Caspar Creek. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 81-85.

Maahs, Michael. 1996. A salmon spawning survey for portions of Ten Mile River, Caspar Creek and Garcia River, 1995-96. Unpublished report prepared for Humboldt County Resource Conservation District. Salmon Trollers Marketing Association, Inc.; 28 p.

Maahs, Michael; Gilleard, Jim. 1993. An evaluation of rehabilitation efforts based on carcass recovery and spawning activity. Anadromous salmonid resources of Mendocino coastal and inland rivers 1990-91 through 1991-92. Draft Final Report. Contract Number FG-9364. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Fish and Game; 66 p. 2074 KB

Madej, M.A. 2005. The role of organic matter in sediment budgets in forested terrain. In Sediment Budgets II. Proceedings of the Seventh IAHS Scientific Assembly at Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. IAHS Publ. 292.

Messer, Dean F.; Donaldson, Catherine L.; Parker, Michael S.; Knight, Allen W. 1994. Effects of clear-cut logging practices on benthic communities of the North Fork Caspar Creek Watershed, Jackson State Demonstration Forest: Interim Report, Spring 1987 to Spring 1992. Land, Air and Water Resources Paper No. 100024. Prepared for California Department of Forestry Contract No. 8CA63802; May 1994. Davis, CA: University of California; 122 p. [See Bottorff and Knight, 1996 for final report]

Morken, Ingrid; Ziemer, Robert R. 1998. Publications related to Caspar Creek. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator.Proceedingsof the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 137-149.

Nakamoto, Rodney. 1998. Effects of timber harvest on aquatic vertebrates and habitat in the North Fork Caspar Creek. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 87-95.

Napolitano, Michael Brent. 1996. Sediment transport and storage in North Fork Caspar Creek, Mendocino County, California: water years 1980-1988. Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University; 148 p. M.S. thesis.

Napolitano, Michael. 1998. Persistence of historical logging impacts on channel form in mainstem North Fork Caspar Creek. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 97-101.

Napolitano, Michael; Jackson, Francis; Cafferata, Peter. 1989. A history of logging in the Caspar Creek basin. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 33, April 1989. p. 4-7.

O'Connor, Matthew D.; Ziemer, Robert R. 1989. Coarse woody debris ecology in a second-growth Sequoia sempervirens forest stream. In: Abell, Dana L., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the California Riparian Systems Conference: protection, management, and restoration for the 1990s; 1988 September 22-24; Davis, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW-110. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 165-171.

Parker, Micheal S. 1991. North Fork Caspar Creek stream biology study. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter, No. 43, October 1991. p. 7-8.

Pearce, Richard B. 1993. Caspar Creek: discovering how watersheds respond to logging. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service; 6 p. (Revised from August 1987 issue of Forestry Research West).

Pert, Heather Anne. 1993. Winter food habits of coastal juvenile steelhead and Coho salmon in Pudding Creek, northern California. Berkeley, CA: University of California; 65 p. M.S. thesis.

Post, D.A.; Grant, G.E.; Jones, J.A. 1998. New developments in ecological hydrology expand research opportunities. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 79(43): 517; 526.

Reid, Leslie M. 1998. Cumulative watershed effects: Caspar Creek and beyond. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 117-127.

Reid, Leslie M.; Hilton, Sue. 1998. Buffering the buffer. In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 71-80.

Rice, R.M. 1987. Cumulative impacts: current research and current opinions at PSW. In: Proc. Impact '87, Annual Convention of California Licensed Foresters Association; 1987 March 6-7, 1987; Pioneer, CA; 1-12.

Rice, R.M. 1991. Cumulative watershed effects: can they be measured? What have we learned from the Caspar Creek studies in northern California? In: The 1990s--challenging our profession and professionalism. Summaries of the proceedings of the 1990 western forestry conference, 1990 December 2-5; Coeur d'Alene, ID. Portland, OR: Western Forestry and Conservation Association; 92.

Rice, Raymond M. 1996. Sediment delivery in the North Fork of Caspar Creek. Unpubl. Final Report prepared for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Agreement No. 8CA94077. 28 October 1996. 11 p.

Rice, Raymond M. 1998. Where do we go from here? In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 135-136.

Rice, Raymond M. 1998. Why Caspar Creek -- then and now? In: Ziemer, Robert R., technical coordinator. Proceedings of the conference on coastal watersheds: the Caspar Creek story, 1998 May 6; Ukiah, CA. General Tech. Rep. PSW GTR-168. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 11-13.

Rice, R.M.; Sherbin, S.A. 1977. Estimating sedimentation from an erosion-hazard rating. USDA Forest Service Research Note PSW-323. Berkeley, California: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 4 p.

Rice, Raymond M.; Tilley, Forest B.; Datzman, Patricia A. 1979. A watershed's response to logging and roads: South Fork of Caspar Creek, California, 1967-1976. Res. Paper PSW-146. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 12 p.

Rice, Raymond M.; Ziemer, Robert R.; Lewis, Jack. 2004. Evaluating forest management effects on erosion, sediment, and runoff: Caspar Creek and northwestern California. Pp. 223-238 in: George G. Ice and John D. Stednick (eds.), A Century of Forest and Wildland Watershed Lessons. Bethesda, Maryland: Society of American Foresters.

Rice, Raymond M.; Ziemer, Robert R.; Lewis, Jack. 2001. Forest management effects on erosion, sediment, and runoff: Lessons from Caspar Creek and northwestern California. Pages 69-75 in: Proceedings, Society of American Foresters 2000 National Convention, November 16-20, 2000. Washington, DC: Society of American Foresters.

Ridenhour, Richard L. 1966. Caspar Creek project stream ecology phase progress report, July 1, 1965 - June 30, 1966. Unpublished report, Humboldt State College. June 30, 1966. 27 p.

Rodriguez, Albert; Jones, Weldon. 1993. Investigations of salmon and steelhead trout downstream migrations in Caspar Creek and Little River, Mendocino County, March-July, 1993. Unpublished Report, California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, CA. 16 p.

Schofield, Nick. 1989. Visit to Caspar Creek, northern California. Land and Water Research News 3: 24-27. Western Australia Steering Committee for Research on Land Use and Water Supply, The Water Authority of Western Australia, Leederville, WA.

Sendek, Karen Hardison. 1985. Effects of timber harvesting on the lag time of Caspar Creek watershed. Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University; 46 p. M.S. thesis.

Spittler, T.E. 1995. Pilot monitoring program: geologic input for the hillslope component (includes a discussion of Caspar Creek geology and geomorphology). Unpublished report prepared for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Contract No. 8CA38400, Sacramento, CA. 16 p.

Spittler, T.E.; McKittrick, M.A. 1995. Geologic and geomorphic features related to landsliding, North and South Forks of Caspar Creek, Mendocino County, California. DMG Open File Report 95-08, Plate 1, North Fork; and Plate 2, South Fork. Scale 1:12,000. Available from: California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology, 801 K Street, MS 14-34, Sacramento, CA 95814-3532.

Steinbuck, Elias. 2002. The influence of tree morphology on stemflow in a redwood region second-growth forest. Chico, CA: California State University, Chico; 55 p. M.S. thesis.

Stillwater Sciences, 2003. A theoretical model for the initiation of large woody debris movement in Caspar Creek, CA. Unpublished final report prepared for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Contract # 8CA99258, January 2003. Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, CA. 22 p.

Surfleet, Christopher G.; Ziemer, Robert R. 1996. Effects of forest harvesting on large organic debris in coastal streams. In: LeBlanc, John, ed. Conference on coast redwood forest ecology and management; 1996 June 18-20; Arcata, CA. Berkeley, CA: University of California; 134-136.

Swanson, Frederick J.; Benda, Lee E.; Duncan, Stanley H.; Grant, Gordon E.; Megahan, Walter F.; Reid, Leslie M.; Ziemer, Robert R. 1987. Chapter Two, Mass failures and other processes of sediment production in Pacific northwest forest landscapes. In: E. O. Salo and T. Cundy (ed.), Streamside Management: Forestry and Fishery Interactions, Proceedings of a Symposium held at University of Washington, 12-14 February 1986. Contribution no. 57, Institute of Forest Resources, Seattle, WA. pp. 9-38.

Thomas, R.B. 1985. "Artificial intelligence" at streamgaging stations. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 66(46): 912.

Thomas, Robert B. 1985. Estimating total suspended sediment yield with probability sampling. Water Resources Research 21(9): 1381-1388.

Thomas, Robert B. 1985. Measuring suspended sediment in small mountain streams. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-83. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 9 p.

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