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Klamath Biological Research Station (KBRS) is owned and operated by Alan B. Franklin as a sole-propietorship in Trinity County, California. The station was founded in 2001 in memory of his grandfather, Frank D. Abell who left him the down payment for the Station after his death. The station is used to support various biological research projects in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecological province of northwestern California. The station is primarily supported by external research grants. |
Klamath Biological Research Station is located near the small town of Salyer, in Trinity County, California. Salyer has a population of about 200 people and is on the border of Trinity and Humboldt counties. The nearest large town is Willow Creek (40.88°N, 123.66°W) in Humboldt County, which is 5 miles west of Salyer and has a population of 1,300. Salyer is about 50 miles east of the Pacific Ocean where the major towns of this region, Arcata and Eureka, are located. |
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Trinity County is 3,179 square miles, roughly the size of Vermont. If you hammered the mountains flat though, Trinity County would cover an area about the size of Texas. In the 2000 census, the population of Trinity County was only 13,022 people, or about 4 people/square mile. In Trinity County, there are no incorporated towns and there is not a single traffic light. Humboldt County has a larger population density of about 35 people/square mile but almost all of these people live on the coast around the towns of Eureka and Arcata. |