HR: 1340h
AN: U53A-0706    [Abstracts]
TI: Stream Discharge and Sediment Load Variation During Three Dry Years at Kings River Experimental Watershed in the Southern Sierra Nevada in California
AU: * Eagan, S M
EM: seagan@fs.fed.us
AF: USDA Forest Service Research, PSW, Sierra Nevada Research Center, 2081 E Sierra Ave, Fresno, CA 93710 United States
AU: Johnson, C
EM: crjohnson@fs.fed.us
AF: USDA Forest Service Research, PSW, Sierra Nevada Research Center, 2081 E Sierra Ave, Fresno, CA 93710 United States
AU: Hunsaker, C T
EM: chunsaker@fs.fed.us
AF: USDA Forest Service Research, PSW, Sierra Nevada Research Center, 2081 E Sierra Ave, Fresno, CA 93710 United States
AU: Dolanc, C
EM: cdolanc@fs.fed.us
AF: USDA Forest Service Research, PSW, Sierra Nevada Research Center, 2081 E Sierra Ave, Fresno, CA 93710 United States
AU: Lynch, M
EM: melynch@fs.fed.us
AF: USDA Forest Service Research, PSW, Sierra Nevada Research Center, 2081 E Sierra Ave, Fresno, CA 93710 United States
AB: The Kings River Experimental Watershed (KREW) is now in its third year of data collection on eight small watersheds from 1600-2400 m in the Sierra Nevada. We are collecting meteorology, stream discharge, sediment load, water chemistry, stream microclimate, shallow soil water chemistry, vegetation, macro-invertebrate and air quality data. This paper examines connections between meteorology, stream discharge and sediment yield in water years 2003 and 2004, which were generally dry with below average snow packs. The current effort is to establish a baseline variation in these watershed characteristics prior to treatments. The Sierra National Forest will thin and/or prescribed burn six of these watersheds in 2006 and 2007 while two will remain as controls.
UR: http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/snrc/
DE: 1655 Water cycles (1836)
DE: 1803 Anthropogenic effects
DE: 1836 Hydrologic budget (1655)
SC: Union [U]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting