Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest daily average streamflow data: 1992-2001

This data publication contains daily average streamflow from October 1992 through September 2001 for 11 stream gauging stations located on the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest (TCEF) which is located in the Little Belt Mountains of Central Montana, USA. Streamflow was measured at two locations on Tenderfoot Creek (Upper and Lower) as well as seven subwatersheds. Gauging stations on the subwatersheds were Sun, Upper Sun, Spring Park, Bubbling, Stringer, Upper Stringer, Pack, Passionate, and Lonesome Creeks. Two of these subwatersheds (Sun and Spring Park) had experimental harvesting in 1999 and 2000. Half of those cutting units were burned under prescription between 2001 and 2003. Two adjacent subwatersheds (Bubbling and Stringer) serve as controls for the silvicultural treatments (Hood et. al. 2012, McCaughey et. al. 2006).The Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest (TCEF) was established in 1961 as an experimental watershed in representative lodgepole pine forest common east of the Continental Divide. The mission of this Experimental Forest was to develop “management techniques through research of how to harvest lodgepole pine timber while maintaining soil stability, and improving water yields without aggravating snowmelt and summer storm peaks and sediment production” (Establishment report for the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest 1961). In the early 1990s, a new objective was outlined to develop and evaluate methods for sustaining the productivity and biodiversity of multi-aged east-side lodgepole pine communities. At that time, efforts to establish baseline data in several disciplines including hydrology, precipitation, snow deposition, surface fuel loading and forest ecology. Hydrologic and climatologic sites were established to monitor environmental effects of various silvicultural methods used to restore and regenerate multi-aged lodgepole pine forests.本数据集收录了美国蒙大拿州中部小贝尔特山脉内的嫩特福特溪实验林（Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest, TCEF）内11处径流监测站（stream gauging station）1992年10月至2001年9月的日平均径流量（daily average streamflow）数据。嫩特福特溪干流的上、下游两处点位，以及7个子流域（subwatershed）均布设了径流监测站，这些子流域的监测站点分别对应孙溪、上孙溪、春园溪、冒泡溪、斯廷格溪、上斯廷格溪、帕克溪、帕申溪与隆斯姆溪。其中孙溪与春园溪这2个子流域分别于1999年、2000年实施了实验性采伐，且该采伐小班中有一半于2001年至2003年间按照规程进行了计划火烧。相邻的冒泡溪与斯廷格溪2个子流域则作为营林处理（silvicultural treatment）的对照样区（Hood等，2012；McCaughey等，2006）。 嫩特福特溪实验林（TCEF）始建于1961年，是落基山脉大陆分水岭东侧典型扭叶松（lodgepole pine）林流域的实验研究基地。该实验林的初始研究目标为：通过研究如何在采伐扭叶松用材林的同时维持土壤稳定性、提升径流量且不加剧融雪、夏季暴雨径流峰值与泥沙产出，从而制定科学营林技术（引自《嫩特福特溪实验林1961年建设报告》）。 20世纪90年代初，该实验林新增研究目标：开发并评估维持大陆分水岭东侧多代际扭叶松群落生产力与生物多样性的技术方法。同期，研究团队启动了多学科基线数据的采集工作，涵盖水文、降水、积雪沉积、地表可燃物载量与森林生态学等领域。 研究人员还布设了水文与气候监测站点，以监测各类营林措施对多代际扭叶松森林恢复与更新的环境影响。