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It is a second-order wadeable stream. The stream reach is located upstream of the Red Butte Reservoir and a U.S. Geological Survey gaging station. The stream is confined within a steep canyon drainage basin in the southwestern Rocky Mountains and drains a 16.7 km2 (4130 acre) watershed. REDB is managed by the United States Forest Service and the University of Utah. The site is part of NEON\u0027s Great Basin Domain (D15), which is bordered by the Sierra Nevada to the west, the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau to the east, the Mojave Desert to the south, and the Columbia Plateau to the north. D15 has one other field site, the terrestrial site ONAQ.","citation":null,"relatedIdentifiers":null,"status":{"label":"Operational","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/elter_cl\/10772"},"yearEstablished":2017,"yearClosed":null,"relatedSites":null,"siteName":"Red Butte Creek NEON","shortName":"REDB","siteType":"Platform","protectionLevel":null,"landUse":null,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/49061262261_6a2f143657_k.jpg","alt":"REDB ice crystals in stream"},{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/48755023371_1ee5a9e504_k.jpg","alt":"REDB Spring Flow 2017"}]},"environmentalCharacteristics":{"airTemperature":{"yearlyAverage":7.7,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"\u00b0C","referencePeriod":null},"precipitation":{"yearlyAverage":751,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"mm","referencePeriod":null},"biogeographicalRegion":null,"biome":"deciduous_forest","ecosystemType":[{"label":"Agricultural","uri":null},{"label":"Deciduous Forest","uri":null},{"label":"Forest","uri":null}],"eunisHabitat":null,"landforms":null,"geoBonBiome":["Fresh water rivers"],"geology":"The geology of Red Butte Creek ranges from recent Holocene deposits to 360 million years old Mississippian rocks. Younger deposits are unconsolidated and derive mostly from landslides or stream-deposited alluvium. The majority of deposits at Red Butte Creek consist of shales and siltstones.","hydrology":"Red Butte Creek is a snowmelt-dominated system, and thus has a flow regime with large peak flows during spring and early summer. Often, the flows increase by a factor of 10 during spring snowmelt. Hydrograph fluctuations are driven by this snowmelt. During base flow conditions, stream widths are typically \u003C2 m (\u003C6.5 ft.) and depth \u003C0.5 m (\u003C1.6 ft.).","soils":"Dominant soil series at the site: Harkers-Wallsburg association, steep. The taxonomy of this soil is Order: Mollisols; Suborder: Xerolls; Great group: Palexerolls-Argixerolls; Subgroup: Typic Palexerolls-Lithic Argixerolls; Family: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Palexerolls-Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, frigid Lithic Argixerolls; Series: Harkers-Wallsburg association, steep.","vegetation":"Abundant hardwood trees and willows surround Red Butte Creek. Grasses and shrubs comprise the understory. Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) is the dominant type of vegetation throughout the altitudinal range of Red Butte Canyon. Both walls of the canyon support often nearly impenetrable oak in association with bigtooth maple (Acer grandidentatum), the latter growing chiefly in drainage-ways. Few species thrive as understory with dense oak cover. The most common are catchweed bedstraw (Galium aparine) and Oregon grape (Mahonia repens). Others appearing seasonally under oak are dogtooth violet (Erythronium grandiflorum), lanceleaf spring beauty (Claytonia lanceolata), ballhead waterleaf (Hydrophyllum capitatum), and western waterleaf (H. occidentale)."},"geographic":{"boundaries":null,"coordinates":"POINT (-111.79765 40.78374)","country":["United States of America"],"elevation":{"avg":1694,"min":1524,"max":2499,"unit":"msl"},"size":{"value":180,"unit":"ha"},"relatedLocations":null},"focusDesignScale":{"experiments":{"design":"mainly experimentation","scale":"catchment scale"},"observations":{"design":"mainly observation","scale":"entire catchment"},"observedProperties":[{"label":"DNA sequence","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/21400"},{"label":"genetic parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20942"},{"label":"land cover","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/22142"},{"label":"landscape parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20943"},{"label":"water parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20945"},{"label":"water quality","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/22312"}]},"infrastructure":{"accessibleAllYear":true,"accessType":null,"allPartsAccessible":null,"maintenanceInterval":null,"permanentPowerSupply":true,"operation":{"permanent":true,"notes":null,"siteVisitInterval":null},"notes":null,"collection":null,"data":{"policy":{"url":null,"rights":null,"notes":null}}},"relatedResources":null,"projectRelated":{"lter":{"lterSiteClassification":null}}}}