• 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

In 2016, students from the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources NR-1 class collaborated with the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative (VMC, now called the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative or FEMC), Vermont Urban and Community Forestry, and the Burlington Parks and Recreation Department to conduct a forest inventory within three public parks in Burlington, Vermont – Oakledge Park, McKenzie Park and land formerly owned by Burlington College.

• Label: CoverTypes

• Description: Cover ID for the 10 plot cover types used by i-Tree. Cover must equal to 100% at each plot based on a combination of different cover types.

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: CustomizedElementPrice

• Description: This table contains the Location Name, Series, Year, Element, and Price of the element. This table contains the information that contributes to the services portion of the report.

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: FieldLandUse

• Description: This table contains the land use of each plot within the study.

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Ground Covers

• Description: This table contains a description of the ground cover for each plot within the study. Each ground cover type was given a percent cover rating.

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: interval
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Location

• Description: This table contains information on the general location of the study plots.

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Map Land Use Descriptions

• Description: This table contains information on the size of each of the 3 main land uses (interior, transition, and open) in acres.

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: ratio
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Unit: acre
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Plots

• Description: This table contains information about each of the plots within the study area (location name, series, year, plotid, address, coordinates, date surveyed. crew, comments).

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: ReferenceObject

• Description: This table contains information about the reference objects used to locate plot center of each plot, information such as directions (azimuth), distance, the type of object, DBH if applicable, and any helpful notes.

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Subplots

• Description: This table contains information about each of the subplots such as the plot ID number, subplot size, tree cover, shrub cover, percent planted, and percent measured.

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Tree Diameters

• Description: This table contains the stem diameters of all the trees measured within each plot.

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: ratio
• Precision: 0.1
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Unit: inches
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Trees

• Description: This table contains all the tree health information such as direction, distance, tree status, species, heights, crown widths, crown light exposure, percent crown missing, percent dieback, percent impervious, percent shrub, and any additional tree notes.

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: ratio
• Precision: 0.01
• String Format: D-M-YY
• Unit: inches
• Number Type: -1