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| Research Locations
We have three research sites where we conduct long-term interdisciplinary
research. These sites offer large landscapes for research experimentation,
long-term records of environmental data, and, in many places, laboratories
and housing for scientists and their staff. Additionally, we have
established permanent research plots to collect ecological data
at a number of locations in South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and
New Mexico. |
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| GLEES (Glacier Lakes Ecosystem
Experiments Site) |
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| • In the Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow Mountains,
Wyoming |
| • 600 ha research watershed in complex mountainous
terrain at 3200-3500 m elevation |
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Contact:
Dr. Robert
Musselman
USDA Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station
240 West Prospect
Ft. Collins, CO 80526
Phone: (970) 498-1239
e-mail: rmusselman@fs.fed.us
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| Description
of the GLEES site |
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| Medicine
Bow-Routt National Forests |
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| Manitou Experimental Forest |
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| • Located
28 miles northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| • 26 square miles of montane ponderosa pine zone at 7,500 to 9,300 feet elevation |
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Contact:
Dr. Linda
Joyce
USDA Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station
240 West Prospect
Ft. Collins, CO 80526
phone:(970) 498-2560
e-mail: ljoyce@fs.fed.us
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| Pike
& San Isabel National Forests |
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| Black Hills Experimental
Forest |
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| • Located on the Nemo Ranger District
of the Black Hills National Forest |
| • 3,438 acres of ponderosa pine woodland |
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Contact:
Dr. Linda
Joyce
USDA Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station
240 West Prospect
Ft. Collins, CO 80526
phone:(970) 498-2560
e-mail: ljoyce@fs.fed.us
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| Black
Hills National Forest |
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| Fraser |
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| • Provides catchments that span alpine
to lower subalpine ecosystems |
| • 36 square-mile of Rocky Mountain
forests at elevations from 2680 - 3900 m |
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Contact:
Dr. Kelly
Elder
Project Leader, RWU4352
e-mail: kelder@fs.fed.us |
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| Long-term Vegetation Plots |
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| This project maintains several long-term mensuration research plots
that were started in the mid-20th century. These research plots
are greatly valued for the long-term productivity, and species composition
information that they continue to provide. |
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Contact:
Dr. Linda
Joyce
USDA Forest Service
Rocky Mountain Research Station
240 West Prospect
Ft. Collins, CO 80526
phone:(970) 498-2560
e-mail: ljoyce@fs.fed.us |
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