Forest health monitoring summary data (2007–2024) from eight national parks in the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network
This data package contains records and metadata from long-term forest health monitoring collected in eight national park units in the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Inventory and Monitoring Network from 2007 - 2024. Data on forest composition and structure, tree dieback, forest pests and pathogens, tree regeneration, shrubs, invasive plants, groundstory diversity and nativity, herbaceous plants sensitive to browse, and coarse woody debris were collected from over 380 plots, most of which were sampled four times. Plots were sampled on a four-year panel design, in which one panel containing one-fourth of a park’s total plots was sampled each year. Field methods and data quality control procedures are described in detail at the National Park Service's Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network website (https://www.nps.gov/im/ermn/vegetation-soils.htm). This monitoring program focuses on indicators of forest ecological integrity to provide information on the condition of the parks’ forests and how this condition is changing over time. Plot locations were determined through a random, spatially balanced sampling design for each park. Therefore, these data are appropriate for precisely estimating forest health metrics within each monitored park.
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| description | This data package contains records and metadata from long-term forest health monitoring collected in eight national park units in the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Inventory and Monitoring Network from 2007 - 2024. Data on forest composition and structure, tree dieback, forest pests and pathogens, tree regeneration, shrubs, invasive plants, groundstory diversity and nativity, herbaceous plants sensitive to browse, and coarse woody debris were collected from over 380 plots, most of which were sampled four times. Plots were sampled on a four-year panel design, in which one panel containing one-fourth of a park’s total plots was sampled each year. Field methods and data quality control procedures are described in detail at the National Park Service's Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network website (https://www.nps.gov/im/ermn/vegetation-soils.htm). This monitoring program focuses on indicators of forest ecological integrity to provide information on the condition of the parks’ forests and how this condition is changing over time. Plot locations were determined through a random, spatially balanced sampling design for each park. Therefore, these data are appropriate for precisely estimating forest health metrics within each monitored park. |
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| issued | 2025-09-25T00:00:00Z |
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"Acer pensylvanicum",
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"Acer saccharinum",
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"Betula lenta",
"Betula nigra",
"Betula papyrifera",
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"California boxelder",
"Canada hemlock",
"Carolina buckthorn",
"Carpinus caroliniana",
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"Carya cordiformis",
"Carya glabra",
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"Cercis canadensis",
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"Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network",
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"FONE",
"FRHI",
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"Flowering Dogwood",
"Fort Necessity National Battlefield",
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"Fraxinus",
"Fraxinus americana",
"Fraxinus pennsylvanica",
"Friendship Hill National Historic Site",
"GARI",
"Gauley River National Recreation Area",
"Gleditsia triacanthos",
"Halesia tetraptera",
"Hart's thorn",
"IMD",
"Ilex opaca",
"Inventory and Monitoring Division",
"JOFL",
"Japanese maple",
"Jersey pine",
"Johnstown Flood National Memorial",
"Juglans",
"Juglans cinerea",
"Juglans nigra",
"Juniperus virginiana",
"Larix",
"Liquidambar styraciflua",
"Liriodendron tulipifera",
"Magnolia",
"Magnolia acuminata",
"Magnolia fraseri",
"Magnolia tripetala",
"Malus",
"Malus coronaria",
"Manitoba maple",
"Morus alba",
"Morus rubra",
"NERI",
"NPS",
"National Park Service",
"New River Gorge National Park and Preserve",
"Norway maple",
"Norway pine",
"Norway spruce",
"Nyssa sylvatica",
"Oleaceae",
"Ostrya virginiana",
"Oxydendrum arboreum",
"Paulownia tomentosa",
"Picea abies",
"Pinus",
"Pinus pungens",
"Pinus resinosa",
"Pinus rigida",
"Pinus strobus",
"Pinus sylvestris",
"Pinus virginiana",
"Platanus occidentalis",
"Populus",
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"Populus grandidentata",
"Populus tremuloides",
"Prunus",
"Prunus americana",
"Prunus avium",
"Prunus pensylvanica",
"Prunus serotina",
"Prunus virginiana",
"Pyrus",
"Quercus",
"Quercus alba",
"Quercus bicolor",
"Quercus coccinea",
"Quercus montana",
"Quercus muehlenbergii",
"Quercus palustris",
"Quercus prinus",
"Quercus rubra",
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"Rhus typhina",
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"Salix nigra",
"Sassafras albidum",
"Scots pine",
"Table Mountain pine",
"Tilia americana",
"Tsuga canadensis",
"Ulmus",
"Ulmus americana",
"Ulmus rubra",
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"Virginia pine",
"Weymouth pine",
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"honeylocust",
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"mountain maple",
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"pin cherry",
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"pine",
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"red mulberry",
"red pine",
"redbud",
"river birch",
"roses",
"royal paulownia",
"sassafras",
"scarlet oak",
"scrub pine",
"serviceberry",
"shadblow",
"shagbark hickory",
"shellbark hickory",
"silver maple",
"slippery elm",
"soft pine",
"sorrel tree",
"sourwood",
"staghorn sumac",
"striped maple",
"sugar maple",
"sumac",
"swamp white oak",
"sweet birch",
"sweet cherry",
"sweet crab apple",
"sweet crabapple",
"sweet pignut",
"sweetgum",
"sycamore",
"three-leaf maple",
"tree of heaven",
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"tulip-poplar",
"tuliptree",
"umbrella magnolia",
"umbrella-tree",
"vegetation",
"walnut",
"western boxelder",
"western hackberry",
"white ash",
"white fringetree",
"white mulberry",
"white oak",
"white pine",
"white poplar",
"white walnut",
"willow",
"yellow birch",
"yellow buckeye",
"yellow locust",
"yellow poplar",
"yellow-poplar"
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| landingPage | https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2298542 |
| license | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
| modified | 2025-09-25T00:00:00Z |
| programCode |
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| publisher |
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"name": "National Park Service",
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| spatial | -81.1565,37.5172,-74.7459,41.3463 |
| temporal | 2007-01-01/2024-01-01 |
| theme |
[
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|
| title | Forest health monitoring summary data (2007–2024) from eight national parks in the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network |