Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Interior Alaska Background and Current Status.

• Main Author: Slaughter,Charles W.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: Hydrology; Limnology and Potamology; (*HYDROLOGY; *ALASKA); NETWORKS; DRAINAGE; ECOLOGY; PERMAFROST; PLANTS(BOTANY); NATURAL RESOURCES; ARCTIC REGIONS; WATERSHEDS; Arctic; Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed; permafrost; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0726373; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0726373

The Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed was established in 1969 as a site for cooperative, inter-agency investigation of hydrologic and related aspects of a subarctic environemnt. The relatively undisturbed 4O-square-mile drainage basin includes both permafrost-dominated and non-permafrost watersheds, and has a variety of vegetation communities. Initial research is directed to furthering understanding of hydrologic behavior of north-facing (permafrost) and south-facing (non-permafrost) basins in this upland setting. (Author)