Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest water quality data: 1992-2009

This data publication contains water quality data analyzed from water samples taken at 11 hydrologic flumes on the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forests from 1992 to 2009. Water quality parameters measured include specific conductance, calcium, ammonia, phosphorus, pH, alkalinity, sulfate, sodium, potassium, chloride, suspended solids, total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), nitrate plus nitrite, nitrite, magnesium, hardness, bicarbonate, and carbonate.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. In 1999 and 2000, a series of experimental shelterwood harvests were performed in the Sun Creek and Spring Park sub-watersheds of the Tenderfoot Creek watershed. Bubbling and Stringer creek subwatersheds serve as control units. Stream flow, sediment movement and water quality are monitored in theses subwatersheds as well as adjacent subwatersheds so that the effects of shelterwood harvesting on stream dynamics can be monitored.Original metadata date was 8/19/2010. Updates were made to the URLs in this metadata document on 12/23/2010. Metadata modified on 02/08/2011 to include the addition of a DOI (digital object identifier). Minor changes made to metadata on 05/08/2013 when this data publication became available through R&D Data Archive. More minor changes made on 9/26/2013. Minor metadata updates on 12/20/2016.