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Area Hare Creek
Topic Timber Harvest: KRIS Map Image Hare Creek Sub Basin
 

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The image above comes from the KRIS Big River Map project and shows timber harvests as mapped by the California Department of Forestry by silvicultural type from 1986 to 1999. Approximately two thirds of the basin is within Jackson Demonstration State Forest. Cuts in upper Hare Creek have been selection as opposed to clear cut, although substantial canopy reduction shows for this area in the 1994 to 1998 change scene detection imagery provided by CDF (see next Picture).


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The image above comes from the KRIS Big River Map project and shows changes in vegetation between 1994 and 1998 according to CDF FRAP change scene detection. Patches clear cut in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the North Fork Caspar Creek showed increases in canopy cover while upper Hare Creek showed a decrease in canopy. Smaller patches in the Mitchell Creek CalWater and in the west of Hare Creek are likely related to increasing development and urbanization.




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