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Forest vegetation and associated resources are a high-priority vital sign.This program monitors the composition and structure of park forests, and collects data for assessing forest soil condition, impacts of white-tailed deer herbivory, and land cover. Appalachian Trail Forest MonitoringThe region through which APPA passes is predominantly forested and key stressors of these resources include land use change and habitat fragmentation on lands adjacent to the Appalachian NST corridor, nonnative species, visitor usage, wet and dry deposition, and climate change. NETN has developed a data acquisition protocol using plot-based data collected by the US Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA) to track the overall condition of forest resources along the Appalachian Trail. This protocol is currently under development and will be available by the end of 2018. NETN Forest Health Monitoring Materials
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Last updated: December 5, 2019