Sagehen Creek Field Station

Sagehen Creek Field Station (SCFS) is located in the Sierra Nevada north of Truckee. The facility was established in 1951 under a cooperative management arrangement with UC Berkeley and the US Forest Service (USFS). In 2004 Sagehen joined the Natural Reserve System (NRS), and in 2005 it became an experimental forest affiliated with the US Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) and Tahoe National Forest. Sagehen Experimental Forest was the first to be created in California in almost 50 years.

SCFS holds several unique and valuable historical collections, including data collected over several decades of research and monitoring. Of special note are materials that document the broader history of environmental science and activism in California, including papers produced by A. Starker Leopold (UC Berkeley) and Luna Leopold (US Geological Survey), both sons of the famous scientist and conservationist Aldo Leopold, including correspondence on such topics as the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.