AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Project
1455-C Sandy Prairie Court
Fortuna, CA 95540
(707) 725-8601
(707) 725-8602 - fax
wsp.info@ccc.ca.gov
US Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory
Mailing Address
1700 Bayview St
Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 822-3691
(707) 825-2901 (fax)
Mission Statement
Our mission is to gain a better understanding of the physical and biological processes that integrate terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic ecosystems at the watershed scale. To take an interdisciplinary approach to study the production and transport of watershed products (water, sediment, woody debris, nutrients, and heat) and their influence on physical and biological resources (such as water supply and fish populations). Using this improved understanding, to assist in the development of new management strategies for ecoscape management.
Major Projects
Turbidity Threshold Sampling at Caspar Creek [http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/water/tts/]; Large Woody Debris Effects on Stream Habitat and Sediment Storage; Individual Based Model for Fish Ecology [http://www.humboldt.edu/~ecomodel/]
Examples of Work
Winter field work involves maintaining stream gaging stations, downloading data and processing stream samples from 23 stations at Caspar Creek; summer work may involve stream and hillslope surveys, data analysis, and report writing.



