Deception Creek Experimental Forest

Location

45° 10' 0.0012" N, 116° 30' 0" W
Brief Site Description: 
Deception Creek Experimental Forest is located in one of the most productive forests of the Rocky Mountains.
Detailed Site Description: 

Deception Creek Experimental Forest is located in one of the most productive forests of the Rocky Mountains. When the forest was established in 1933, large, old western white pines were important for producing lumber products, matches, and toothpicks. Deception Creek is located in the heart of the western white pine forest type, allowing researchers to focus on the ecology and silviculture of western white pine and its associated species. The forest includes the entire drainage of Deception Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River in northern Idaho. The area encompasses 1,425 ha, with elevations ranging from 850 to 1,402 m. Deception Creek dissects the experimental forest from west to east and is influenced by many small side drainages, giving rise to predominantly north- and southfacing slopes with slope angles ranging from 35 to 80 percent.

http://www.fs.fed.us/rmrs/experimental-forests/deception-creek-experimen...

Field Site Type: 
US affiliate
Registration: 
Unregistered
Network(s): 
USFS
Study Start Date: 
1933
Mean Annual Precipitation: 
1 400 millimeters / year
Land Cover: 
Evergreen Forest
Geology: 
metasediments
Soil Order: 
Inceptisol
Hydrology: Name: 
Deception Creek
Hydrology: Surface water stream order: 
Unknown
Hydrology: Surface water - Stream Flow Performance: 
Perennial
Hydrology: Groundwater: 
Unknown
Climate: 
Temperate
Sub-Climate: 
Humid