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Title: Comparison of the yields of downstream migrant salmonids before and after logging and road construction on the South Fork Caspar Creek, Mendocino County

Author: Graves, David S.; Burns, James W.

Date: 1970

Source: California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, California. Inland Fisheries Admin. Rept. 70-3. 11 p.

Description: Yields of juvenile steelhead rainbow trout Salmo gairdnerii gairdnerii) and silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) emigrants were compared in South Fork Caspar Creek, a small coastal stream in Mendocino County, California, before and after construction of a logging road along the stream in the summer of 1967. Numbers, lengths, and age class structures were compared.

Keywords: PSW4351, Caspar Creek, steelhead, rainbow trout, silver salmon, smolts, downstream, salmonds

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Graves, David S.; Burns, James W.  1970.  Comparison of the yields of downstream migrant salmonids before and after logging and road construction on the South Fork Caspar Creek, Mendocino County.   California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, California. Inland Fisheries Admin. Rept. 70-3. 11 p..