Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest annual precipitation data: 2nd edition

This data publication contains annual precipitation data from 1993-2018 at ten locations on the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest (Bubbling Creek, County Line, Dry Park, Farnes Meadow, Lonesome Creek, Lower Sun Creek, Upper Stringer Creek, Passionate Creek, Lower Stringer Creek and Onion Park). Annual precipitation is collected in storage gauges kept on site year long. Storage gauges are checked on or near September 30 coinciding with the end of the water year (historic period of low flow in the Tenderfoot Creek watershed).
The Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest was established in 1961 as an experimental watershed in representative lodgepole pine forest common east of the Continental Divide. Hydrologic and climatologic monitoring sites were established in the early 1990's to monitor environmental effects of various silvicultural methods used to restore and regenerate healthy lodgepole pine forests. Tenderfoot Creek is a major tributary of the Smith and Missouri rivers, thus providing an important hydrologic resource for much of central Montana (McCaughey et al. 2006).
This data publication is a second edition and includes all of the data in the first edition, with some data edits, and additional years of data. Data edits include the addition of data originally thought to be missing, along with more accurate measurements dates for a couple of years. Minor metadata updates were made on 12/07/2016. On 12/12/2016 we added 2013-2016 data, and on 12/20/2018 we added 2017-2018 data. On 09/08/20 some additional minor metadata updates were made.