Wind River Experimental Forest NEON - United States of America

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Site Name
Wind River Experimental Forest NEON
Short name
WREF
Country
United States of America
Web Address
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/field-sites-map/WREF
Site Manager
Ben Vierra
Site Description
Wind River Experimental Forest (WREF) Located in an old growth Pacific Northwest forest west of the Cascade Range, Wind River Experimental Forest has a rich history of research and timber management since the early 1900s. The area is best known for its old-growth forests of Douglas-fir and western hemlock. Data collected at this site provides an interesting comparison to NEON's ABBY site which is located Yacolt Burn State Forest, a relatively young growth industrial timber production forest. Remote sensing surveys of this field site collect lidar, spectrometer and high-resolution RGB camera data. The flux/meteorological tower at this site is 279ft with 8 measurement levels. The tower top extends above the vegetation canopy to ...
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Last modified
2020-07-27 10:07:57

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2018
Observed properties
atmospheric parameterecosystem parameterbiological parameterchemical parametergenetic parameterlandscape parametersoil parameterairtemperatureheatfluxozoneconcentrationprecipitationintensitylatentheatleafareaindexplantdiversityspeciesabundanceabovegroundbiomasssoilcarbondioxydefluxDNAsequencelandcoversoilmoisturecontent
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
NEON✔ (WREF)This site is a verified "NEON" member.
Photos
Rainbow at WREF
Rainbow at WREF
Geographic
2 km
1 mi
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 45.82049 Longitude: -121.95191

Size
ca. 4194.00ha
Elevation (average)
407.00msl
Elevation (min)
300.00msl
Elevation (max)
1008.00msl
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Terrestrial
Biome
Evergreen Forest
Ecosystem Type
Forest
Evergreen Forest
Air Temperature: Average Annual
8.00°C
Precipitation Annual
2530.00mm
Geology
The vast majority of plots at WREF are situated either on the slopes of an extinct volcanic cinder cone known as Trout Creek Hill or on adjacent slopes above the Wind River, defined by Pleistocene-age basalt flows of the Trout Creek formation, often cover
Soils
Medial, amorphic, mesic. Typic Hapludands.

Site Type
Platform
Design of Experimentation
partly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
beyond catchment scale
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
beyond catchment
Accessible All Year
Yes