Managing Arid and Semi-Arid Watersheds

Beaver Creek Watersheds

For each watershed, the link leads to an overview of the watershed, including a description, the area, the treatments used, results obtained, and reference literature citations.

You may also access this by a clickable map.

Utah Juniper

Watershed 1: Cabled, 1963
Watershed 2: Control
Watershed 3: Herbicide application, 1968

Alligator Juniper

Watershed 4: Untreated
Watershed 5: Control
Watershed 6: Felling overstory trees, 1965

Ponderosa Pine

Watershed 7: Control
Watershed 8: Silvicultural thinning
Watershed 9: Regular, one-third strip-cut, 1967
Watershed 10: Patch-cut, 1974
Watershed 11: Clearcut and grazing, 1958 and 1963, respectively
Watershed 12: Clearcut, 1967
Watershed 13: Control
Watershed 14: Irregular strip-cut and thin, 1970
Watershed 15: Control
Watershed 16: Irregular Strip-cut and Thin, 1972
Watershed 17: Heavy Thinning, 1969
Watershed 18: Control
Watershed 19 (Woods Canyon): Silvicultural thinning, 1978
Watershed 20 (Bar-M): Control

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12 December 2001

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