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Collins Lake Ranch - 2025 WY Snow Pole Pictures


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Abstract

Collins Lake Ranch is a private ranch located in Mora County, northern New Mexico. In 2022, part of the ranch was impacted by the Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon (HPCC) wildfire. New Mexico Highlands University commonly uses this ranch as a research site for forestry management and have treated multiple areas on the ranch, saving it from more extreme burning from the HPCC fire. This study area has three study locations, each with two plots, totaling six plots. Each plot has a Wingscapes TimelapseCam Pro camera, a two and a half meter by one-inch diameter snow pole attached to a U-post, and temperature loggers distributed on the ground surface. The time-lapse camera takes a picture twice a day of the snow pole which is painted in five-centimeter increments.

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Collin's Lake Ranch Sites:
CLD_N - Dense Ponderosa Pine (mean percent veg 56.2), coordinates 35.99287, -105.39041
CLD_S - Dense Mixed Conifer (mean percent veg 57.3), coordinates 35.99254, -105.39082
CLH_N - High Severity Burn Scar (2022 Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon)(mean percent veg 0), coordinates 35.98865, -105.38937
CLH_S - High Severity Burn Scar (2022 Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon)(mean percent veg 0), coordinates 35.98852, -105.39035
CLT_N - Treated Ponderosa Pine (mean percent veg 30.8), coordinates 35.99268, -105.38988
CLT_S - Treated Ponderosa Pine (mean percent veg 30.2), coordinates 35.99125, -105.39074

Mean percent veg calculated with methodology from Chianucci et al., 2021
- Took 17 equally spaced pictures of the canopy with Sony Alpha 6300 camera at 62cm height directly vertical
- Binarized each image
- Calculated percent black vs. white to get percent veg coverage
- Averaged the 17 percent veg numbers per site to get one final number

Pictures taken with Wingscapes TimelapseCam Pro camera - takes picture twice a day. Records temp from camera, site name, and time.
Pole is a two and a half meter by one-inch diameter pvc attached to a U-post. Painted with alternating white and black in 5 cm increments. Orange every 50 cm.

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Collins Lake Ranch - Forest structure influence on snowpack Lindsey Rotche  Private &  Shareable None

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This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
U.S. National Science Foundation SRS RN: Transforming Rural-Urban Systems: Trajectories for Sustainability in the Intermountain West 2115169

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Rotche, L. (2026). Collins Lake Ranch - 2025 WY Snow Pole Pictures, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/5a54f4e6ed7b49de82dc9fb78ea68965

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