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  • Riparian Permanent Sample Plots in the Cedar River Watershed, Seattle, WA State: 2003-2012
  • Loutos, Zoe; Restoration Ecologist; Seattle Public Utilities
  • 2024-02-14
  • Loutos, Z. 2024. Riparian Permanent Sample Plots in the Cedar River Watershed, Seattle, WA State: 2003-2012 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-27).

  • In 2003 Seattle Public Utilities established permanent sample plots in riparian habitats of the Cedar River Watershed in Washington State. The Cedar River Watershed provides drinking water to the City of Seattle and is closed to public access to protect the drinking water source. 61 total plots were established in riparian areas along the Cedar River and its tributaries within the Cedar River Watershed. 31 of these plots (plot #s 1-31) were established in 2003 upstream of Chester Morse Lake, the drinking water reservoir for the City of Seattle. 30 additional plots (plot #s 32-61) were established in 2005 downstream of Chester Morse Lake. In 2012, 6 of the 61 total plots (plot #s 4, 11, 12, 27, 28, 29) were resampled and the sampling methods were simplified. Each sampling year had different surveyors.

    The riparian permanent sample plots were limited to low gradient, moderately to unconfined reaches along the Cedar River and its tributaries because they typically show the most variability in riparian condition, stream-riparian interactions are greatest, and fish use is highest. Sites were randomly selected along these reaches, with two plots located at each site, one on each side of the river. Sites were stratified into four stand types: deciduous dominated, mixed deciduous/conifer, conifer dominated in stem exclusion phase with little understory, and conifer dominated differentiated with well-developed understory, with at least five plots in each type. Selection of riparian plots for resampling in 2012 was designed to include plots in second and old growth forests and with medium and large stream sizes. Future resampling is expected to occur at an approximately ten-year interval.

    Each plot was measured for tree species and diameter, snag diameter and height, shrub species and cover, herb species and cover, sapling species and cover, percent canopy cover, and other species found in the plots but not previously recorded in the tree, shrub, and herb sampling.

  • N: 47.4291247      S: 47.2917787      E: -121.438019      W: -121.9732561
  • cos-spu.12.1  (Uploaded 2024-02-14)  
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  • Data Entities:
    1. RiparianPSP_PlotDescriptions_Master  (5.1 KiB; 7 downloads) 
    2. RiparianPSP_TreesSnags_Master  (119.6 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    3. RiparianPSP_TallShrubs_Master  (7.2 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    4. RiparianPSP_LowShrubs_Master  (69.1 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    5. RiparianPSP_Herbs_Master  (18.8 KiB; 7 downloads) 
    6. RiparianPSP_Saplings_Master  (29.9 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    7. RiparianPSP_CanopyClosure_Master  (3.0 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    8. RiparianPSP_OtherSpecies_Master  (5.7 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    9. 2003 Protocols for Riparian Permanent Sample Plot Monitoring in the Cedar River Watershed, WA State  (226.0 KiB; 3 downloads) 
    10. 2005 Protocols for Riparian Permanent Sample Plot Monitoring in the Cedar River Watershed, WA State  (236.7 KiB; 3 downloads) 
    11. 2012 Protocols for Riparian Permanent Sample Plot Monitoring in the Cedar River Watershed, WA State  (254.6 KiB; 3 downloads) 
    12. Riparian Permanent Sample Plots Map  (499.8 KiB; 6 downloads) 
    13. Riparian Permanent Sample Plot Photos, 2005  (187.7 MiB; 4 downloads) 
    14. Riparian Permanent Sample Plot Photos, 2012  (56.1 MiB; 3 downloads) 
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