public read Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of America

(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femcVermont Monitoring Cooperative leadUniversity of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural ResourcesvolunteersAn access database that holds all the plot level data that went into i-Tree eco which was used to generate a report on the forest health of the Burlington, VT urban forests.Forest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeJohnTruongprincipalInvestigatorIn 2016, students from ¶¶Òõ̽̽’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.Plot Level Information for 2016 i-Tree (Access Database)An access database that holds all the plot level data that went into i-Tree eco which was used to generate a report on the forest health of the Burlington, VT urban forests.VMC.1129.2340mySQL/femc/data/archive/project/2016_i-Tree/dataset/burlington_itree_nput-database2016-09-06Cover_TypesCoverTypesCover 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.textCustomized_Element_PriceCustomizedElementPriceThis 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.textField_Land_UseFieldLandUseThis table contains the land use of each plot within the study.textGroundCoversGround CoversThis table contains a description of the ground cover for each plot within the study. Each ground cover type was given a percent cover rating.intmeter-1LocationLocationThis table contains information on the general location of the study plots.intMapLandUseDescriptionsMap Land Use DescriptionsThis table contains information on the size of each of the 3 main land uses (interior, transition, and open) in acres.decimalmeter-1PlotsPlotsThis table contains information about each of the plots within the study area (location name, series, year, plotid, address, coordinates, date surveyed. crew, comments).textReference_ObjectsReferenceObjectThis 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.textSubplotsSubplotsThis 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.textTree_DiametersTree DiametersThis table contains the stem diameters of all the trees measured within each plot.decimalmeter-1TreesTreesThis 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.decimalmeter-1