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Collins Lake Ranch - Hourly Air Temperatures


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Abstract

Collins Lake Ranch is a private ranch located in Mora County, northern New Mexico. It specializes in residential living and education for adults with disabilities. 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, totaling six plots. Due to active thinning on this ranch, we moved our dense location for the 2024-2025 snow season, however, we tried to maintain as similar a forest structure and elevation as possible. Collins Lake Ranch represents lower elevation mid latitude locations that receive substantial snowfall, however, the snowpack is not seasonally persistent and is therefore classified as ephemeral. There were three shielded temperature loggers placed on the ranch to obtain hourly air temperatures. There was one logger placed at approximately 5ft off the ground on the northern side of a tree at each study location (dense forest, thinned forest, and high severity burn scar).

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Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
North Latitude
35.9928°
East Longitude
-105.3857°
South Latitude
35.9882°
West Longitude
-105.3911°

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README.txt

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

One shielded temperature logger placed between the two pole locations (e.g. CLD_N and CLD_S) on the north side of the tree. Takes temperature reading hourly.

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

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Funding Agencies

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 - Hourly Air Temperatures, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/c883bb0f4474419fb0e0051974f5fadf

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