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An Approach To Study The Effect Of Harvest And Wildfire On Watershed Hydrology And Sediment Yield In A Coast Redwood Forest, Christopher G. Surfleet, Arne Skaugset, Brian Dietterick

Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences

The Little Creek watershed, within California State Polytechnic University’s Swanton Pacific Ranch, is the location of a paired and nested watershed study to investigate the watershed effects of coast redwood forest management. Streamflow, suspended sediment, and stream turbidity have been collected during storms at two locations on the North Fork Little Creek and at the outlet of South Fork Little Creek from 2002 until present. In 2008, the watershed area between the two monitoring stations on the North Fork Little Creek watershed was harvested with an individual tree selection silvicultural system within the Santa Cruz County Rules of the California …