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Invasive
Plant Inventory Protocols
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Invasive
Plant Inventory Protocols
After
receiving your assigned woodland to survey, the following
procedures should be followed:
Gather
the needed materials:
Contact
the landowner:
Contact the landowner to inform them of when you are planning
to conduct the survey for the four invasive weeds. You may
need to remind them about the project. In addition, ask
them for directions to the wooded site and where the land
borders are.
Once
on Location: (to
see a diagram of what this would look like, please click
here)
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Choose
an end of the woodland on which to start your survey.
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On
the data sheet, record the date, woodland location, woodland
type and the names of volunteers conducting the survey.
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At
the starting point, record the presence or absence of
each species within 2-yard radius.
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Walk
30 steps (approximately 30 yards) in as straight a line
as possible.
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Record
the presence or absence of each species within 2-yard
radius. Repeat this process every 30 yards.
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Upon
reaching the woodland border, turn left or right and go
in that direction for 60 steps, conducting two survey
stops along the border.
(For example, going north 30 steps, survey, continue north
30 steps and survey, and turn back into the forest towards
the direction from which you first came.)
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Continue the process until the woodland area has been
walked and surveyed.
Submitting
your data:
After you have completed collecting the data form, the total
number of survey stops, and the sum total of presence and
absence for each species, the data needs to be entered into
the web site, which can be found by clicking on the following
link: On-line
data entry form
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Copyright
© 2002 Iowa State University Extension. Legal.
Extension programs are available to all without regard to
race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability.
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