Response of overstory trees and understory regeneration to a green-tree retention harvest as part of the Spearfish Timber Sale, Wind River Experimental Forest

Research Data Publication File Index

File Folder Description
_metadata_RDS-2019-0024.html   Metadata file in HTML format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_metadata_RDS-2019-0024.xml   Metadata file in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
Codes_Damage.pdf \Data Adobe Acrobat PDF/a file containing a description of the codes used to describe the tree damage found in these data files.
Spearfish_1ha_seedlings_xy.csv \Data Comma-delimited ASCII text file containing information regarding all trees (overstory + understory) and includes size class, x, and y coordinates (exported from the corresponding shapefile: \Data\GIS\Tree_pt.shp) for the 1 hectare study plot.
Spearfish_1ha_shrub_skids.csv \Data Comma-delimited ASCII text file containing XY coordinates for the vertices that make up the polygons representing shrub patches, skid trails, and areas with bare ground (exported from the corresponding shapefile: \Data\GIS\poly_features.shp) for the 1 hectare study plot.
Spearfish_15ha_tree_data.csv \Data Comma-delimited ASCII text file containing the 1989 and 1998 tree height and diameter measurements data from the 15 hectare unit of the Spearfish study. Also included are diameter at breast height growth increases in 3 year increments from 1977-1998 measured from increment cores for a subset of the live trees.
poly_features.shp \Data\GIS Shapefile (and associated files) that contains the polygons representing shrub patches, skid trails, and areas with bare ground for the 1 hectare study plot.
Tree_pt.shp \Data\GIS Shapefile (and associated files) that contains the polygons representing shrub patches, skid trails, and areas with bare ground for the 1 hectare study plot.
Spearfish_1ha_map_seedling_size.jpg \Supplements JPEG file containing the 100 x 100 meter (m) grid (1 hectare), broken up into 10 x 10 m cells, showing the different sizes of all seedlings measured.
Spearfish_1ha_map_seedling_species.jpg \Supplements JPEG file containing the 100 x 100 meter grid (1 hectare), broken up into 10 x 10 m cells, showing the different species of all seedlings measured.
Spearfish_1ha_map_shrub_skids.jpg \Supplements JPEG file containing the 100 x 100 meter grid (1 hectare), broken up into 10 x 10 m cells, showing shrub clumps, skid trails, logs, etc. on this study unit.