| There are several rain gages in the Oak Creek basin:
Arne
Skaugset (OSU Assistant Professor of Forest Engineering) began
operating three gages in the McDonald-Dunn Forest in 2002 as part
of study investigating the impact of forest roads.
The Environmental Protection
Agency Corvallis Lab operates a rain gage. This data is not
available for public distribution until it has been through Quality
Control procedures. Contact: Ron Waschman (Waschmann.Ron@epamail.epa.gov).
The OSU
Dairy Center operates a rain gage. Contact: Ben Krahn, Unit
Supervisor (541.737.3275).
There is U.S. Weather Service weather station at Hyslop
Farm, an OSU research facility between Corvallis and Albany
(off of U.S. Highway 20 and Lewisburg Road). Records are available
from 1948 through the present. Some daily
records are available online as are historical
summary tables. Contact: George
Taylor, Oregon State Climatologist (541.737.5705, oregon@oce.orst.edu
).
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