Pacific Southwest Research Station

The Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed Study, located on the Jackson Demonstration State Forest near Fort Bragg, California, is a cooperative venture of the Redwood Sciences Laboratory and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection that has been operating continuously since 1962.

• Plot current streamflow, sediment, rainfall, and temperature
• Description of long-term cooperative research at Caspar Creek.
• 100-year Caspar Creek Memorandum of Understanding between California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and Pacific Southwest Research Station was signed on August 17, 1999.
• Proceedings, Conference on Coastal Watersheds -- the Caspar Creek Story. May 6-7, 1998.

(To request a hard-copy of the Proceedings)

• A brief history of the Caspar Creek study
• The Caspar Creek Watershed Study Completes 40 Years of Research
• Bibliography of Caspar Creek Publications, including those available on-line
• Brief description of 26 gaged watersheds in North and South Forks.
• Maps of Caspar Creek
• Entire Caspar Creek watershed
• Topography of North and South Forks Caspar Creek
• North Fork Caspar Creek
• South Fork Caspar Creek

Information about the names of the South Fork Tributaries.

• Longitudinal profile of North Fork stream channels
• Geologic and Geomorphic Features Related to Landsliding, North and South Forks of Caspar Creek, Mendocino County, California. California Division of Mines and Geology Open File Report OFR 95-08.
• Fish surveys
  • 2004-2005 adult salmonid estimates from redd surveys
  • 1987-2005 juvenile salmonid counts from downstream migrant traps
• Photo Gallery of Caspar Creek.
• Turbidity and suspended sediment monitoring
• California Watershed Projects Inventory - Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed Project
• Caspar Creek Phase II: Discovering How Watersheds Respond to Logging
• Caspar Creek: how a northwestern California watershed responds to logging. 20 minute video. Luba Productions. 1988. [Available from U.S. Forest Service Video Library]
• Caspar Creek Road Sedimentation Model. A road sedimentation model, SEDMODL, was applied by the Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) to the Caspar Creek watershed. The model was developed by Boise Cascade for forest lands in Idaho and Washington, but the structure of the model is flexible enough to be adapted for use in northern California.
• Information about the community of Caspar, California

Caspar Creek Data:

Research is being conducted by: