Hinkle Creek Paired Watershed Study

Major Projects

Hydrology and Water Quality
Hinkle Creek represents an excellent place to test the efficacy of contemporary forest practices with regard to impacts on water quality.  Discharge, suspended sediment, and temperature will be measured on each of the small perennial, non-fish-bearing streams as well as at the mouths of the North and South Forks of Hinkle Creek.

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Stream amphibians
The Hinkle Creek Paired Watershed Study provides a unique opportunity to combine data from multiple fields to help understand the impact of forest management on stream amphibians and the whole stream system.

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Fisheries
This study will initiate a long-term program examining fish and riparian invertebrates associated with temporally varying harvest activities.

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Stream chemistry, water nutrient concentrations and soil resources
This research addresses the need to obtain baseline data for both stream chemistry and soil resources for the North and South Forks of the Hinkle Creek Paired Watershed Study.

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Aquatic invertebrates
The paired watershed study at Hinkle Creek provides an opportunity to examine these measures of benthic invertebrates in streams dominated by mature coniferous forests and subsequent responses to planned harvests.

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Multidisciplinary, Integrated Statistical Analysis
This analysis seeks a better description of the data analysis that would consider cumulative impacts and better describe the integration that would occur between the original disciplinary projects.

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