Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Assessing the risk of invasive plant introductions at trailheads in the Adirondack Park, NY: Adirondack Park trail register data for 2012

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  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Abstract

    The Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) collaborated with Dr. Colin Beier (SUNY-ESF) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to expand on the work by Rockefeller (2016) and Larkin (2017) to examine the risk of invasive plant propagule transport by visitors to trailheads in the Adirondack Park, NY. The Adirondack Park contains over 300 trailheads, each usually has a parking area for visitors and a trail register for each party to record their location of origin. As visitors may travel from areas outside the Park, there is a risk that visitors could unwillingly transport invasive plants on boot treads, dog fur, or clothing that could become established in the Park. While this work only includes visitor data from 2012, it provides valuable information on the possible travel routes, hotspots, and vulnerabilities in invasive plant management in the park. Additionally, summary information on visitor use and travel distances can help with resource allocation and planning.

People

  • Alexandra Kosiba: Principal Investigator

  • James Duncan: Content Provider

  • Emma Tait: Content Provider

  • Colin Beier: Content Provider

  • Justin Perry: Content Provider

  • Matthias Sirch: Content Provider

Keywords

  • hiker, recreation, trail registers, trailheads, travel distance,

Organizations

  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) : lead
  • NYC Department of Environmental Conservation : partner
  • The State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry: partner

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    Data Table

    • Title: Adirondack Park trail register data for 2012
    • Start Date: 2019-08-01
    • End Date: 2020-01-31
    • Description: These data are a subset of data housed in the Adirondack Trail Registry Database (ADK-TReD), which includes data from 210 trail register books from 2012 located at trailheads in the Adirondack Park. Fields include group size, length of stay, and user days (defined as group size multiplied by the length of stay), as well as visitor origin information (location of residence). Only entries with valid origin data and those orginating from the states of Connecticut (CT), Massachusetts (MA), Maine (ME), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), Pennsylvania (PA), Rhode Island (RI), and Vermont (VT) are included in this dataset.

    • Purpose: To examine hiker origin data for trail register books in the Adirondack Park, NY,

    • Condensed Title: Z1627_3227_1033K5

    • Object Name: VMC.1627.3227

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: Tait E, Kosiba AM, Larkin A, Rockefeller D, and Beier C. (2020) Adirondack Park trail registry data for 2012. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/adktrailheads/dataset/adirondack-park-trail-registry-data-for

    • Online Distribution: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/adktrailheads/dataset/adirondack-park-trail-registry-data-for

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: county
      • Label: county
      • Description: County name
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: date
      • Label: date
      • Description: Date of the trip
      • Storage Type: date
      • Measurment Type: datetime
      • String Format: M/D/YYYY
      Attribute Name: destination
      • Label: destination
      • Description: Destination name
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: fkDestinationID
      • Label: fkDestinationID
      • Description: The destination ID of the trip based on the trail register name
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: fkOriginGroupID
      • Label: fkOriginGroupID
      • Description: The origin group ID of the trip based on the town name listed in the register
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: fkOriginID
      • Label: fkOriginID
      • Description: The origin ID of the trip based on the town name listed in the register
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: group_size
      • Label: group_size
      • Description: Group size from register
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: ratio
      • Precision: 1
      Attribute Name: matchedTrailname
      • Label: matchedTrailname
      • Description: The trail name matched to the trailhead shapefile
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: mgmtUnit
      • Label: mgmtUnit
      • Description: The management unit name
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: NYmatchedTown
      • Label: NYmatchedTown
      • Description: The town name as matched previously for New York
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: originalTown
      • Label: originalTown
      • Description: The town name originally written in the register
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: pkTripID
      • Label: pkTripID
      • Description: Unique ID for each trip
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: politicalEntity
      • Label: politicalEntity
      • Description: The political entity (matches origin ID)
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: state
      • Label: state
      • Description: State
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: stay_length
      • Label: stay_length
      • Description: Stay length from register
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: ratio
      • Precision: 1
      Attribute Name: town
      • Label: town
      • Description: Town name
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: trailName
      • Label: trailName
      • Description: The trail name
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: trailRegister
      • Label: trailRegister
      • Description: The name of the trail register
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: user_days
      • Label: user_days
      • Description: User days from register
      • Storage Type: int
      • Measurment Type: ratio
      • Precision: 1

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    Sampling Equipment

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    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset