Watershed 5 is overlain by a 25 x 25 meter slope-corrected grid (see W5 map), delineated on the ground by plastic orange poles slid over white fiberglass stakes at each grid corner. The grid was surveyed in the summer of 1982 in preparation for the whole-tree harvest. When measurements began, low corner stakes were labeled with an X-Y coordinate system. Grid cells with more than 50 percentof their area lying outside the watershed boundary were not included and not staked. At the conclusion of the survey, the grid cells (or "plots") were numbered consecutively from the top left (west) of the watershed to the bottom. After the whole-tree harvest, the tall orange poles were added for visibility in the anticipated dense regrowth. Each cell is now identified in permanent marker on the orange poles either by X-Y coordinates, or plot number written on the NW corner stake. The markings wash off and need to be renewed every few years.

The table below includes elevation data for each grid corner. Plot numbers designate the NW corner of a grid cell, so plot numbers followed by another quadrant (e.g. NE) are the corners of outer grid cells which do not define the NW corner of another cell.

Click here for a comma-delimited file with the data in this table.