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Massachusetts Forest Health Monitoring: Tree Identifying Information

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Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Address:
705 Spear Street
South Burlington, Vermont 05403
United States of America

Phone: (802) 391-4135
Email: femc@uvm.edu
Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

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The Forest Health Monitoring Program was established in 1991 as a joint effort between the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation (FPR) and the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative (VMC) (as of March 2017 renamed to Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC)) to monitor the condition of a range of tree species in Vermont. Plot design follows the structure set by the National Forest Health Monitoring Program with additional metrics added to reflect improvements in monitoring technologies and additions to monitoring objectives. In collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the FEMC expanded the Forest Health Monitoring program that has been running in Vermont for over 15 years to Massachusetts. In 2019 twenty forested plots were selected from the network of plots that MA DCR has maintained to monitor wood quality and yield on state lands since the 1960s. The goal is to establish a total of twenty-five plots by 2020. Plots were selected to be representative of MA forest composition and distributed across the state. The field crews measured tree demography, including saplings and seedlings, recorded browse, invasive species, and damages, and assessed crown health, among other metrics. Plots will be assessed on an annual basis to provide an early warning sign of forest stress and changes in demography. We thank Bill VanDoren and Nicole Keleher at MA DCR for help with this effort.

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Alexandra Kosiba: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

James Duncan: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

John Truong: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator

Matthias Nevins: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

Matthias Sirch: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

Brenna Christensen: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

Eva Paradiso: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

Julia Pupko: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

Bill VanDoren: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

Nicole Keleher: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider

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forest health, forest health monitoring, plot information, tree id,

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Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) : lead

Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation : partner

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dataset_eml_datatabletitle: Tree Identifying Information

dataset_eml_datatablestartdate: 2019-08-13

dataset_eml_datatableendate: 2021-12-31

dataset_eml_datatabledescription: This dataset contains the basic tree info such as plot ID, location within the plot (distance and azimuth), and species.

dataset_eml_datatablepurpose: Identify a tree based off the existing data from previous years in order to continue monitoring efforts from year to year.

dateset_eml_datatableshortname: Z1624_3219_37CBCG

dataset_eml_datatablephysicalobjectname: VMC.1624.3219

dataset_eml_datatabledatatype: mySQL

dataset_eml_datatablecitation: Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative and Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (2020) Tree Identifying Information. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/massfhm/dataset/tree-identifying-information-1

dataset_eml_datatableonlinedistribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/CI4/data/archive/project/massfhm/dataset/tree-identifying-information-1