Watershed 6

Physical Characteristics
STREAM: Sawmill Branch
AREA: 9 ha
FIRST RECORD: 07/10/1934
NOTCH: 90 V-notch
ELEV. at WEIR: 696 m
MAX ELEVATION: 905 m
MAX DISCHARGE: 3.76 m3sec-1km-2
ASPECT: NW

Summary of Treatments
All woody vegetation cut and scattered in the zone 5 m vertically above the stream; reduced total watershed basal area 12%. Clearcut in 1958, products removed and remaining residue piled and burned. Surface soil scarified, watershed planted to grass, limed and fertilized in 1959; fertilized again in 1965. Grass herbicide treatment in 1966 and 1967; watershed subsequently reverted to successional vegetation.