Southern Research Station

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Southern Research Station

• 5 Science Areas
• Forest Watershed Science
• Threats to Forest Health
• Forest Values, Uses, and Policies
• Forest Ecosystem Restoration Management
• Natural Resources Inventory Monitoring

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Forest Watershed Science
Forest Watershed Science Center for Bottomland
Hardwoods National Agroforestry Center
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Forest Watershed Science

• Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory
• Center for Forested Wetlands
• Savannah River
• Coldwater Fisheries
• 3.5 million base program
• 13 Scientists
• 2 Experimental Forests Savannah River

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Forest Watershed ScienceSRS-4353

• Emphasis Areas

• improve understanding of linkages among
  terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic ecosystems at
  multiple scales
• (2) capitalize on long-term data to develop
  better analytical and predictive models,
• (3) develop and apply approaches to scale from
  the small watersheds to landscapes, and
• (4) develop and provide state-of-the-science
  watershed management and restoration
  knowledge, tools, and techniques to natural
  resource managers, policy makers, and planners.

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Climate
Fire
Management
Restoration
Invasives
Mountains
watershed processes
Piedmont
Coastal Plain
surface flow
watershed processes
watershed processes
sub-surface flow
surface flow
surface flow
soil/water interactions
soil/water interactions
sub-surface flow
sub-surface flow
groundwater
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Long-Term Forest Service Watersheds
Non-FS Long-Term Watersheds
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Drivers Response Variables Value Land
Use Water Quality Quantity Drinking Climate
Change Habitat Water and Variability Aq
uatic Ecosystems
Three Scenarios of Land Use/Change Climate
Variability (less forest, more forest, same
forest)
Mountains
Piedmont
Coastal Plain