FIELD INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE INVENTORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 2013 Hawaii Edition 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 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 PURPOSES OF THIS MANUAL ................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 ORGANIZATION OF THIS MANUAL .......................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2.1 UNITS OF MEASURE ................................................................................................................................................................. 2 1.2.2 GENERAL DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................................................................ 2 1.2.3 PLOT SETUP .............................................................................................................................................................................. 3 1.2.4 PLOT INTEGRITY ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.3 PRODUCTS ............................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.4 RESEARCH TOPICS .................................................................................................................................................................... 5 2 TRAVEL PLANNING AND LOCATING THE PLOT .......................................................................................................................... 6 2.1 LANDOWNER CONTACT ............................................................................................................................................ 6 2.1.1 PERMISSION................................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.1.2 RECORDING CONVERSATIONS WITH LANDOWNERS ....................................................................................... 6 2.1.3 DATA REQUESTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 BEFORE LEAVING BASE CAMP ................................................................................................................................... 6 2.3 CHECKLIST OF ITEMS NEEDED ON PLOT ..................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.1 DATA RECORDING ITEMS .......................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.2 PHOTO INTERPRETATION ITEMS ............................................................................................................................ 7 2.3.3 PLOT MEASURING ITEMS ........................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.4 PLOT REFERENCING ITEMS ...................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.5 FIRST AID ITEMS ........................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.6 PERSONAL AND SAFETY GEAR ............................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.7 CAMPING GEAR WHEN APPLICABLE: ..................................................................................................................... 8 2.4 SAFETY .......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.4.1 SAFETY IN THE WOODS ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.4.2 WHAT TO DO IF INJURED ......................................................................................................................................... 10 2.5 PLOT LOCATION AIDS ............................................................................................................................................. 11 2.6 PLOTS NOT PREVIOUSLY VISITED ............................................................................................................................. 11 2.7 LOCATING THE PLOT ON THE GROUND ..................................................................................................................... 11 2.7.1 LOCATING AN ESTABLISHED PLOT .................................................................................................................................... 11 2.7.1.1 NAVIGATING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY .......................................................................................................................................... 12 2.7.1.2 NAVIGATING WITH GPS ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 2.7.1.3 NAVIGATING WITH REFERENCE POINT (RP) DATA ..................................................................................................................... 12 2.7.1.4 REVERSE REFERNCE POINT (RP) METHOD ................................................................................................................................. 13 2.7.2 ESTABLISHED PLOT ISSUES ............................................................................................................................................... 13 2.7.2.1 DIFFICULTY FINDING ESTABLISHED PLOTS ................................................................................................................................. 13 2.7.2.2 INCORRECTLY INSTALLED PLOT.................................................................................................................................................. 14 2.7.2.3 INCORRECLY INSTALLED SUBPLOT OR MICROPLOT ................................................................................................................... 14 2.7.2.4 PC STAKE OR SUBPLOT/MICROPLOT PIN MISSING OR MOVED ................................................................................................. 14 2.7.2.5 LOST SUBPLOT ........................................................................................................................................................................... 15 2.7.2.6 LOST PLOT (REPLACEMENT PLOT) ............................................................................................................................................. 15 2.7.3 LOCATING NEW PLOTS ............................................................................................................................................. 15 2.8 PLOTS WITH ACTIVE LOGGING ................................................................................................................................ 16 2.9 DENIED ACCESS PLOTS .......................................................................................................................................... 16 2.10 PLOT LOCATION TOLERANCE .................................................................................................................................. 16 3 PLOT LAYOUT AND REFERENCING .......................................................................................................................................... 17 3.1 PLOT LAYOUT AT THE CURRENT ANNUAL INVENTORY ............................................................................................... 17 3.2 NONCENSUS WATER, CENSUS WATER, NONSAMPLED .............................................................................................. 18 3.3 RECOGNITION OF CONDITION CLASSES .................................................................................................................... 18 3.4 SUBPLOT NUMBERING ............................................................................................................................................ 18 3.5 REFERENCING THE PLOT ........................................................................................................................................ 18 i 3.5.1 REFERENCING PLOTS NOT VISITED PREVIOUSLY ......................................................................................... 18 3.5.2 THE REFERENCE POINT (RP) ................................................................................................................................. 19 3.5.3 REFERENCING THE CENTER PIN ......................................................................................................................... 20 3.6 REFERENCING THE OTHER SUBPLOTS ON THE STANDARD LAYOUT ............................................................................