• 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

The Vermont State Continuous Forest Inventory is a data collection program with a comprehensive measure of tree health, growth, and decay within Vermont state lands. It serves as a baseline data set for a variety of tree growth, landscape models, and climate predictive models. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to use this data.

• Label: Diameter_in

• Storage Type: decimal

• Label: Hollow

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal

• Label: Hollow?_Y/N

• Label: Location

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal

• Label: Year

• Description: Year data was collected

• Storage Type: datetime

• Measurment Type: datetime
• String Format: YYYY

• Label: Plot

• Description: Unique plot identifier

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: nominal
• Standard Unit: -1
• String Format: DD/MM/YYYY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Notes

• Description: Observer notes

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• Standard Unit: -1
• String Format: DD/MM/YYYY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: ID

• Description: Data identification number

• Storage Type: int

• Measurment Type: nominal
• Standard Unit: -1
• String Format: DD/MM/YYYY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Hollow? Y/N

• Description: Is the wildlife utilized coarse woody material hollow or not?

• Storage Type: text

• Measurment Type: nominal
• Standard Unit: -1
• String Format: DD/MM/YYYY
• Number Type: -1

• Label: Diameter (inches)

• Description: Diameter of caorse woody material greater than 12 inches in diameter

• Storage Type: decimal

• Measurment Type: ratio
• Standard Unit: inch
• Precision: 0.1
• String Format: DD/MM/YYYY
• Unit: inch
• Number Type: rational
• Bounds:
• Minimum: 12
• Maximum: 0

• Wildlife Coarse Woody Material: 26.3’ radius
  • Started: 2015-06-01
    
  • Method Description: To be measured the CWM must be within the 26.3’ radius plot and have a diameter > 12”. If the CWM meets the criteria the center diameter is measured and whether it is hollow or not is recorded.
  Instrumentation: Hypsometer (Haglof Vertex IV), 100’ steel logger’s diameter tape, 100’ fiber glass ground tape, compass, bark scribe, blue paint pen, PVC pipe, orange, blue, and pink flagging, data collection sheets, pencils, Garmin gps

• Plot Description
  • Method Description: Plots are randomly distributed within the study area and stratified by natural community type at a density of approximately 1 per 200ac

• Plot Design
  • Method Description: These are all nested plots. Plot center is marked with PVC pipe painted fluorescent orange. At the plot there are three main plots nested around the center stake. The overstory plot is 52.7’ in radius, the large sapling plot is 26.3’ in radius and the small sapling is 16.6’ in radius. To organize the data each plot is divided into 10, 36 degree sectors. At each plot the sectors are flagged out with a blue flag at 16.6’, an orange flag at 26.3’ and a pink flag at 52.7’. At each cardinal direction there are seedling plots located 26.3’ from plot center. At each of the seedling plots an orange painted PVC pipe is at plot center. From plot center a 100’ transect is established at a random azimuth and a PVC pipe is located at the end of the transect. Along this transect course woody material is measured from 0’-100’ and fine woody material is measured from 80’-100’.
  Instrumentation: Hypsometer (Haglof Vertex IV), 100’ steel logger’s diameter tape, 100’ fiber glass ground tape, compass, bark scribe, blue paint pen, PVC pipe, orange, blue, and pink flagging, data collection sheets, pencils, Garmin gps

• Tools
• Sampling Description: Hypsometer (Haglof Vertex IV), 100’ steel logger’s diameter tape, 100’ fiber glass ground tape, compass, bark scribe, blue paint pen, PVC pipe, orange, blue, and pink flagging, data collection sheets, pencils, Garmin gps

• Wildlife Coarse Woody Material: 26.3’ radius
• Started: 2015-06-01
  
• Sampling Description: To be measured the coarse woody material must be within the 26.3’ radius plot and have a diameter > 12”. If the CWM meets the criteria the center diameter is measured and whether it is hollow or not is recorded.
• Frequency: Each plot will be remeasured on a 7-year rotation following the original measurement protocols.