Shope Fork of Coweeta Creek streamflow at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory from 1934 to 1999

Coweeta Watershed 08 is Shope Fork, one of the four headwater streams forming Coweeta Creek which drains into the Little Tennessee River near Otto (Macon County) North Carolina. WS089 has 759.6 ha, entirely forested except for gravel roads servicing research sites, and ranges in elevation from 701.6 m at the weir to 1600 m at the peak of Albert Mountain. The majority of the watershed has been covered with mixed deciduous forest for the entire period of record except for small clearings associated with raingage and climate station sites and watershed treatments. The two largest treatments were cutting of all forest vegetation on 43.7 ha in 1963 and 59.6 ha in 1977. Natural regeneration revegetated both areas quickly with canopy closure occurring within 10 years or less.