Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest stream sediment collection: 1994-2009

This data publication contains daily average sediment transport data for several creeks in the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest watershed from 1994 to 2009. Sediment data were collected at eight sites in the upper Tenderfoot Creek watershed. Four samplers were placed at the bottom of four sub-watersheds flowing into Tenderfoot Creek. These sub watersheds (and respective collection site names) are Spring Park (SPPA), Sun (LOSU), Stringer (LOST) and Bubbling Creek (BUBB). Two additional samplers were placed on Sun Creek above (UPSU) and below (MISU) a logging road constructed in 2000. An additional collection sampler was on the west fork of Stringer Creek (UPST). Tenderfoot Creek also contains two collection samplers (UPTE and LOTE). UPTE is located above and LOTE is below the sub watersheds SPPA, LOSU, BUBB, and LOST (see map included in this archive). Two sub watersheds: Sun Creek and Spring Park Creek had experimental shelterwood harvests in 1999 and 2000. Portions of these units were prescribed burned between 2001 and 2003. Two adjacent subwatersheds: Bubbling Creek and Stringer Creek serve as control units for the silviculture treatments (see McCaughey et. al. 2006 in the Cross-Reference section). Sediment collection correlates with hydrologic flow data and stream nutrient data collected at a series of hydrologic flumes on the experimental forest. See the Cross-Reference section for access to these data.
The Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest was established in 1961 as an experimental watershed in a 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 silviculture methods used to restore and regenerate healthy lodgepole pine forests. Tenderfoot Creek is a major tributary of the Smith and Missouri rivers, thus providing important hyrological resources for much of central Montana.
Original metadata date was 12/23/2010. Metadata modified on 02/16/2011 to include the addition of a DOI (digital object identifier). Minor changes made to metadata on 05/10/2013 when this data publication became available through R&D Data Archive. Additional edits made on 9/25/2013. Minor metadata updates on 12/20/2016. An updated version of this data publication is now available (https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0016), see the Cross-Reference section.