Forest Products Laboratory

Title: San Dimas Experimental Forest, California—a giant outdoor hydrologic lab

Author: Wohlgemuth, Pete

Date: 2009

Source: In: Wells, G. Experimental Forests and Ranges--100 Years of Research Success Stories. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-182, Madison, WI: Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 20-21.

Station ID: GTR-FPL-182

Description: A visitor to the San Dimas Experimental Forest might be forgiven for wondering where the trees are. It’s not that San Dimas doesn’t have trees; the native chaparral that furs the canyonsides has a lot of scrub oak—technically a tree—amid chamise, ceanothus, and toyon. Moister riparian grottos support laurel, sycamore, and alder. And clinging to the edges of roads are a few specimens of incense-cedar and Coulter pine, exotics brought in by early foresters.

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Wohlgemuth, Pete  2009.  San Dimas Experimental Forest, California—a giant outdoor hydrologic lab.   In: Wells, G. Experimental Forests and Ranges--100 Years of Research Success Stories. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-182, Madison, WI: Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 20-21..