Blacktail Deer Creek NEON - United States of America

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Site Name
Blacktail Deer Creek NEON
Short name
BLDE
Country
United States of America
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Site Description
Blacktail Deer Creek (BLDE) is an aquatic NEON field site located in Yellowstone National Park. It is 100 km (62 mi.) southeast of Bozeman, MT, just south of the Wyoming-Montana state line. It is hosted by the National Park Service. BLDE is a small perennial stream that flows through the northern part of Yellowstone National Park and into the Yellowstone River east of Mammoth Hot Springs. The creek flows through relatively open terrain, with a dense riparian willow canopy on the stream banks, and drains a watershed of 37.81 km2 (8100 acres). It is shallow with clear water and has the potential to flood during snowmelt and heavy rainfall events. The area is visited by tourists and fisherman regularly during the summer. BLDE is highly representative of a wildland area in NEON's Northern Rockies Domain (D12). The trophic structure and community interactions are probably more representative of those that were widespread in the region before Euro-American influence than any other place in the Domain. Thus, the site offers a rare opportunity to understand interactions among climate, natural disturbance, ecosystem processes, and community structure in integrated terrestrial and aquatic systems that are representative of those of intact wildlands across the Domain. Domain 12 comprises the northern part of the Rocky Mountain Range in western Montana, Idaho and northwestern Wyoming. D12 has two colocated field sites: BLDE and the YELL terrestrial site.
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2025-09-19 09:09:53

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2018
Observed properties
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
GERIThis site is a verified "GERI" member.
NEON (BLDE)This site is a verified "NEON" member.
Photos
Discharge sampling at BLDE
Discharge sampling at BLDE
Blacktail Creek in October
Blacktail Creek in October
Geographic
Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 44.95011 Longitude: -110.58715

Size
ca. 3780.00ha
Elevation (average)
2053.00msl
Elevation (min)
1847.00msl
Elevation (max)
2244.00msl
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