Dynamics of summer stream temperature in the southern Appalachian Mountains following the removal of riparian rhododendron, 2014 to 2016.

Summer stream temperature was monitored at numerous locations along four streams before, and after, experimentally removing rhododendron from the riparian zones in 2014 to 2016. Two sites, Kit Springs (KS) and Rocky Bald (RB) were left unmanipulated as reference watersheds throughout the course of the study. Holloway (HW) and Split White Oak (SWO) served as the treatment watersheds, upon which rhododendron was removed. All sites are in the Nantahala National Forest, within in the White Oak Creek Watershed, which is apart of the Nantahala River drainage.