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Fraser Experimental Forest

4947 Grand County Road 73, Fraser, Colorado 80442 USA

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The Fraser Experimental Forest was established in 1937 in the heart of the central Rocky Mountains as part of a national network of experimental forests. The network was designed to dedicate land and facilities with a primary purpose of research involving various aspects of forests.  The intent for the Fraser Experimental Forest (FEF) was to study the relationship between forest management and water yield in the subalpine zone. The Rocky Mountain Research Station maintains this 36 square-mile outdoor research laboratory, which is located about 50 air miles from Denver. FEF is an ideal location to study water, forests, and other physical and biological processes, and their integration in high-elevation subalpine watersheds. Today, the primary research addresses questions that deal with water quantity and water quality, and their relationship to forest vegetation and management across a range of scales from the small plot, to the hillslope, and basin. Other contemporary research projects include silviculture, riparian habitats, sediment, invasives, insects, soils, climate, birds, and a number of other pertinent topics.   Long-term research at Fraser continues to build on the data and records collected over the last seven decades. FEF is one of the only research sites in the Rocky Mountains that maintains long-term records on hydrology, climate, forest structure and growth, and responses to forest management. Fraser is unique among these sites in providing catchments that span alpine to lower subalpine ecosystems, with a full suite of site histories and environments (ages, aspects, elevations). Fraser provides the capacity for researchers to do whole-ecosystem manipulations in watersheds that are representative of high-elevation watersheds of southern and central Rockies.

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Fraser Experimental Forest

4947 Grand County Road 73
Fraser, Colorado
80442 USA
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