Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Assessing the risk of invasive plant introductions at trailheads in the Adirondack Park, NY: Adirondack Park hiker origin data for 2012

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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

Abstract

    The Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) collaborated with Dr. Colin Beier (SUNY-ESF) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to expand on the work by Rockefeller (2016) and Larkin (2017) to examine the risk of invasive plant propagule transport by visitors to trailheads in the Adirondack Park, NY. The Adirondack Park contains over 300 trailheads, each usually has a parking area for visitors and a trail register for each party to record their location of origin. As visitors may travel from areas outside the Park, there is a risk that visitors could unwillingly transport invasive plants on boot treads, dog fur, or clothing that could become established in the Park. While this work only includes visitor data from 2012, it provides valuable information on the possible travel routes, hotspots, and vulnerabilities in invasive plant management in the park. Additionally, summary information on visitor use and travel distances can help with resource allocation and planning.

People

  • Alexandra Kosiba: Principal Investigator

  • James Duncan: Content Provider

  • Emma Tait: Content Provider

  • Colin Beier: Content Provider

  • Justin Perry: Content Provider

  • Matthias Sirch: Content Provider

Keywords

  • adirondack park, trail registers, trailheads,

Organizations

  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) : lead
  • NYC Department of Environmental Conservation : partner
  • The State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry: partner

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    Data Table

    • Title: Adirondack Park hiker origin data for 2012
    • Start Date: 2019-08-01
    • End Date: 2020-01-31
    • Description: These data were extracted from the Adirondack Trail Registry Database (ADK-TReD; Larkin 2017) (see Adirondack Park trail register data for 2012 dataset in this project). We linked visitor-reported origin data recorded in trail register books to spatial cadastral data (Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS). If the origin information and the FIPS data could not be matched, we examined the entry to determine if the reported origin was part of a larger town (e.g., boroughs of NYC) or a misspelling. If we could not determine the exact location of a visitor, we removed this entry.

    • Purpose: To link user origin data recorded at trail register books in the Adirondack Park, NY, to associated spatial cadastral data.

    • Condensed Title: Z1627_3226_DCOZY8

    • Object Name: VMC.1627.3226

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: Tait E, Kosiba AM, Larkin A, Rockefeller D, and Beier C. (2020) Adirondack Park trail registry origin data for 2012. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/adktrailheads/dataset/trail-registry-origin-data

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/adktrailheads/dataset/trail-registry-origin-data

    Attribute List

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      • Label: COUNTYFP
      • Description: County code
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: COUNTYNAME
      • Label: COUNTYNAME
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: fkOriginGroupID
      • Label: fkOriginGroupID
      • Description: ID assigned to towns, towns share a group ID if they are spatially contiguous and in the same county
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: NAME
      • Label: NAME
      • Description: Name of town
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: NAMELSAD
      • Label: NAMELSAD
      • Description: Extended town name
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: OBJECTID
      • Label: OBJECTID
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: pkOriginID
      • Label: pkOriginID
      • Description: ID unique ID for each town political boundary even if it shares a name and county with another town
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: Shape_Area
      • Label: Shape_Area
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ratio
      • Precision: 0.00000000001
      Attribute Name: Shape_Length
      • Label: Shape_Length
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ratio
      • Precision: 0.000000001
      Attribute Name: STATEABBR
      • Label: STATEABBR
      • Description: State abbreviation
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: STATEFP
      • Label: STATEFP
      • Description: State code
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal

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