Watersheds Research Cooperative

Project ID: HAF043F17

Federal Agency: Bureau of Land Management

Partner Institution: Oregon State University

Fiscal Year: 2005

Initial Funding: $10,000

Total Funding: $10,000

Project Type: Research

Project Disciplines: Biological

Principal Investigator: Skaugset, Arne

Agreement Technical Representative: Larsen, Larry

Abstract: The Purpose of the Watersheds Research Cooperative (WRC) is to conduct research and develop new knowledge on intensive forest management and water related values. Intensive forest management is the suite of current and expected forest practices used to grow and harvest commercial forests that are suitable, economically feasible, and environmentally acceptable. Water-related values are those associated with fisheries and aquatic habitat and include, but are not limited to, water quality, fisheries, amphibians, aquatic invertebrates, and nutrients. The research will focus on the interface between harvesting and cultural practices along streams and their local, as well as down-stream effects on fish and aquatic habitat.