Field Instructions

Field Instructions

FIELD INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE INVENTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS 2012 Forest Inventory and Analysis Program Pacific Northwest Research Station USDA Forest Service . THIS MANUAL IS BASED ON: FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS NATIONAL CORE FIELD GUIDE FIELD DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURES FOR PHASE 2 PLOTS VERSION 5.1 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................13 A. Purposes of this manual ........................................................................................................13 B. Organization of this manual ...................................................................................................13 UNITS OF MEASURE ....................................................................................................14 1.1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION ................................................................................15 1.2 PLOT SETUP ..................................................................................................16 1.3 PLOT INTEGRITY ............................................................................................17 Products .......................................................................................................................17 Research topics .............................................................................................................18 2 TRAVEL PLANNING AND LOCATING THE PLOT ...........................................................19 A. Landowner contact ................................................................................................................19 Permission ....................................................................................................................19 Recording conversations with landowners .........................................................................19 Data requests ................................................................................................................19 B. Before leaving base camp ......................................................................................................19 C. Checklist of items needed on plot...........................................................................................20 Data recording items ......................................................................................................20 Photo interpretation items ...............................................................................................20 Plot measuring items ......................................................................................................20 Plot referencing items .....................................................................................................20 First aid items ................................................................................................................20 Personal and safety gear ................................................................................................20 Camping gear when applicable: .......................................................................................21 D. Safety ....................................................................................................................................21 Safety in the woods ........................................................................................................21 What to do if injured:.......................................................................................................24 E. Plot location aids ...................................................................................................................24 Plots not previously visited ..............................................................................................24 F. Locating the plot on the ground ..............................................................................................24 Locating new plots .........................................................................................................24 G. Plots with active logging ........................................................................................................25 H. Denied access plots ...............................................................................................................25 I. Plot location Tolerance ............................................................................................................25 3 PLOT LAYOUT AND REFERENCING .............................................................................27 A. Plot layout at the current annual inventory .............................................................................27 Standard 4-subplot plot diagram ......................................................................................27 B. Noncensus water, Census water, Nonsampled........................................................................27 C. Recognition of condition classes............................................................................................28 D. Subplot numbering ................................................................................................................28 Install 4 subplots ............................................................................................................28 E. Referencing the plot ...............................................................................................................28 1. Referencing plots not visited previously .........................................................................28 2. An exception ..............................................................................................................29 3. The reference point (RP) .............................................................................................29 4. Referencing the center pin ...........................................................................................30 F. Referencing the other subplots on the standard layout............................................................31 1. Mark subplot center. ...................................................................................................31 2. Select witness trees. ...................................................................................................31 3. Tag the reference trees. ..............................................................................................31 4. Record data about the witness trees .............................................................................32 G. Recording witness tree data (all subplots on the standard layout) ...........................................32 H. Plot layout and referencing MQO ............................................................................................32 5 Table of Contents 4 PLOT LEVEL DATA ......................................................................................................33 4.1 STATE (CORE 1.1) [STATECD]......................................................................................33 4.2 ISLAND (HAWAII) [PAC_ISLAND_PNWRS] ....................................................................33 4.3 COUNTY (CORE 1.2) [COUNTYCD]................................................................................33 4.4 PLOT NUMBER (CORE1.3) [PLOT] ................................................................................34 4.5 FIELD GUIDE VERSION (CORE 1.12 [MANUAL] .............................................................34 4.6 VEGETATION/INVASIVE SAMPLING..............................................................................34 4.6.1 P2 VEGETATION SAMPLING STATUS (CORE OPTIONAL 8.3.1) [P2VEG_SAMPLING_STATUS_CD] ................................................................................34 4.6.2 LEVEL OF DETAIL (CORE OPTIONAL 8.3.2) [P2VEG_SAMPLING_LEVEL_DETAIL_CD] ......................................................................35 4.6.3 INVASIVE PLANT SAMPLING STATUS (CORE OPTIONAL 9.3) [INVASIVE_SAMPLING_STATUS_CD] ............................................................................35 4.6.4 INVASIVE PLANT SPECIMEN COLLECTION RULE (CORE OPTIONAL 9.12) [INVASIVE_SPECIMEN_RULE_CD] ................................................................................36 4.7 SURVEY GRADE GPS COORDINATES COLLECTED (HAWAII) [GPS_SAMPLING_STATUS_CD_PNWRS]....................................................................................36 4.8 DECLINATION (CORE OPTIONAL 1.14) [DECLINATION] ................................................36 4.9 QA STATUS (CORE 1.17) [QA STATUS].........................................................................36 4.10 CREW NUMBER (CORE 1.18) [CREWNBR1, CREWNBR2, CREWNBR3, CREWNBR4, CREWNBR5] ..............................................................................................................................37 4.11 YEAR (CORE 1.13.1) [MEASYEAR] ................................................................................37 4.12 MONTH (CORE 1.13.2) [MEASMON] ..............................................................................37 4.13 DAY (CORE 1.13.3) [MEASDAY] ....................................................................................38 4.14 PLOT STATUS (CORE1.4 [PLOT_STATUS-CD] ..............................................................38 4.15 NONFOREST SAMPLING STATUS (CORE 1.5) [NF_SAMPLING_STATUS_CD] ................38 4.16 NONFOREST PLOT STATUS (CORE 1.6) [NF_PLOT_STATUS_CD].................................38

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