I have now been working in the Smokies a little over 2 weeks! I have already learned a lot in the short amount of time I’ve been here. In helping out with spruce-fir monitoring, I feel like I have already improved in skills including plant ID, data collection, and using fieldwork equipment. I have also gained much more knowledge about backcountry safety, navigation, and the local flora and fauna here in Tennessee.
As mentioned in my previous post, I am helping with a long-term vegetation monitoring project on spruce-fir forests here in the southern Appalachians. Field days typically consist of us driving and hiking out to a plot, running transect tapes to create our plot boundaries, re-tagging trees, and recording data on the tree species, dbh, crown condition, and crown position. We also collect data on seedlings and saplings to monitor recruitment, as well as down and dead trees to monitor mortality.
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