Mingus Mountain Watersheds

Treatments and Practices

The treatment plan called for Watershed A to be burned and Watershed B to be treated with chemicals. Watershed C was the control. Chemicals, fire, or a combination of the two were to be used to maintain the brush cover below 10% crown density (Ffolliott and Thorud 1974b). The upper halves of the watersheds A and B were treated in 1974 and the lower halves in 1975 to minimize any treatment-induced erosion (Hibbert 1986).