West St. Louis Creek NEON - United States of America

West St. Louis Creek (WLOU) is a relocatable aquatic site within NEON's Domain 13: Southern Rockies & Colorado Plateau. WLOU is a mountain stream near Arapaho National Forest, southwest of the NIWO and COMO sites. WLOU is at 3,100 m (10,000 feet) in rugged mountainous terrain near the continental divide. The site is hosted by the U.S. Forest Service at Fraser Experimental Forest, which is used for a variety of research programs focused on forest management, water yield and physical and biological processes in high-elevation subalpine watersheds. The stream flows through a subalpine landscape dominated by aspen. This site has one meteorological station located in the riparian area and one meteorological station above water on a ...