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Sagehen |
Contact Information
Jeff Brown, Reserve Manager
Faerthen Felix, Asst. Manager
UC Berkeley
Sagehen Creek Field Station
P. O. Box 939 (11616 Sagehen Road)
Truckee, CA 96160-0939
Phone: 530-587-4830
Fax: 530-582-4031
Sagehen@berkeley.edu
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Location
Nevada County, 8.4 miles north of
Truckee on Highway 89. Map Quest |
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Facilities
Open year-round with 53 beds. All sleeping areas and all buildings are fully winterized with propane heat. Most beds are twin-size; limited faculty space with full- or queen-size beds. Up to 10 tent-camping spaces also available. Other facilities include library/computer lab; two indoor and one outdoor classrooms; communal kitchen, eating area/deck; office space; fish observation house. Extensive environmental
monitoring network covers much of the basin. Electricity, wireless network w/satellite Internet service, telephone (with long distance via calling cards), VCR, slide and LCD projectors. Flush toilets, showers, sinks, washing machines. |
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Databases
Extensive monthly climate records; plant and animal lists; historic/current aerial photos; naturalresource geographic information system (GIS); air and ground-based LIDAR mapping; detailed inventories of tree cover, understory vegetation and soils; various historic research datasets; stream-flow and chemistry records; precipitation chemistry
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Personnel
Year-round resident station manager and
assistant manager. |
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Size
183 ha (452 acres); available watershed comprises ~3,642 ha (~9,000 acres) |
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Elevation
1,800 m to 2,650 m (5,900 to 8,700 ft);
station facilities located at 1,943 m
(6,375 ft) |
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Average Precipitation
Measurements taken at 1,943 m (6,375
ft): water 88 cm (34.65 in); snow 515 cm
(202.8 in) |
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Average Temperature Ranges
January: -10.5 to 3.9°C (14 to 39 °F)
July: 2.8 to 26.1°C (37 to 79°F) |
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Reserve Brochure (PDF) |
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Creek Field Station |
Established in 1951
(Joined NRS 2004) |
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 Located within the Sagehen Experimental Forest on the eastern slope of the northern Sierra Nevada approximately 20
miles north of Lake Tahoe, Sagehen Creek Field Station has been dedicated to
research and teaching since 1951. The University of California operates the station
under a long-term, special-use permit from the U.S. Forest Service. The surrounding
watershed is also available to researchers and classes through an agreement with the
Forest Service and includes extensive stands of yellow pine, mixed conifer, and red fir
forests, as well as brush fields, scattered mountain meadows, and fens. Sagehen serves
as the hub of a much broader network of research areas known as the Central Sierra
Field Research Stations, which is comprised of: Sagehen Creek Field Station, Central
Sierra Snow Laboratory, Onion Creek Experimental Watershed, Chickering American
River Reserve, and North Fork Association Lands. |
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 Graduate research at Sagehen has provided
the basis for 80+ master's and doctoral
theses. Current work includes: behavioral
studies of dark-eyed juncos;
stream runoff modeling; bees/butterflies
in mountain montane meadows;
GIS as a tool for reserve master planning.
Summer field courses
UC Davis offers
a five-week entomology field course
and a two-week botany field course.
Community GIS Center provides advanced
GIS support for researchers; established
in collaboration with Truckee
River Watershed Council, U.S. Forest
Service, CA Fish and Game, Desert
Research Institute.
K-12 education
Adventure, Risk & Challenge (ARC), an intensive six-week course for motivated English Language Learner (ELL) students with leadership potential, is based at Sagehen. Local schools regularly
bring students for outdoor education
classes. UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of
Science offers a one-week summer science
camp for high school students. |
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Databases & Collections
Daily weather data (1953 to present) from
National Climate Data Center; climate
data (1961 to present) from Western Regional
Climate Center. Streamflow/water-
quality data from U.S. Geological Survey;
precipitation (2001 to present) from
National Atmospheric Deposition Program.
Online biological inventories of
amphibians, birds, bony fishes, insects,
mammals, plants, and reptiles. Onsite
teaching collections of birds, insects,
plants, and mammals.
Special Research of National Significance
Fuel Management National Pilot Project
Translating SPLATs from a theoretical to a real-world landscape (more about SPLATs).
Keck HydroWatch Center is developing sensor networks and a data collection infrastructure to model the entire hydrologic system (more about HydroWatch).
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