Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaForest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) leadNew Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands partnerForest clearing detected in New Hampshire using remote sensing (2000-2018)Timber clearing is used for both forest management and to convert forestland to another use (e.g., agriculture or development). Examining the rate, extent, and timing of timber clearing in the state of New Hampshire (NH) is integral to understanding patterns of silviculture and forest conversion. In 1995, a group from the University of New Hampshire analyzed the amount of intensive timber clearing (e.g., clearcutting) in NH, but did not evaluate the timing or post-harvest outcome, and a follow-up analysis has not been completed since. Here, we provide a follow up to those initial assessments and specifically evaluate (1) the number, timing, and size of moderate (>20ft2/ac residual basal area) and intensive (<20ft2/ac residual basal area) timber clearings (>3 ac in size) in NH between 2000 and 2018 detected via remote sensing, (2) the proportion of those clearings determined to be intensive (i.e., clearcuts), and (3) the likely post-harvest outcome (i.e., silviculture or land use conversion).Forest clearing detected in New Hampshire using remote sensing (2000-2018)KosibaAlexandraDuncanJamesLombardKylesilviculturelandsatdeveloped and agricultural landsforest conversionforest lossharvestForest clearing summarized by land ownership type2000-01-012018-12-31Forest clearing polygons were assigned to a county or land ownership type based on the location of its centroid. We converted the forest cover dataset by Hansen et al. (2013) to create a forest-non/forest image, where pixels with ≥30% tree cover were considered forest. We used this forest cover dataset to estimate the proportion of forestland. To summarize forest clearing by land ownership type.20200730111716_ForestLoss_Owenertype.zipVMC.1550.3119mySQLKosiba AM and Duncan JA (2019) Forest clearing summarized by land ownership type. FEMC. Available online at: /femc/data/archive/project/NHForestClearing/dataset/forest-loss-summarized-by-land-ownership/femc/data/archive/project/NHForestClearing/dataset/forest-loss-summarized-by-land-ownership