• 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

Photodocument human impact on Mount Mansfield alpine trails. Provide a baseline photographic database of disturbed alpine communities in the trailside zones of the Mount Mansfield Natural Area. Use this study and follow-up studies to examine the progress of alpine community recovery and assess the effectiveness of current management practices.

• Transects
  • Started: 2000-01-01
    Ended: 2004-12-31
    
  • Method Description: Four transects on Mount Mansfield's chin with 1.5X1.5m quadrats every 50 meters.

• Phototransect images
  • Started: 2004-07-01
    Ended: 2004-07-30
    
  • Method Description: Phototransect images were standardized by using a 35mm camera, a stock 50 mm lens, a precise focal distance (5 meters), a constant aperature (16 or 22), and an in-photo reference scale (a yellow and black striped meter board). Camera to meter board compass bearings were recorded for each transect.

• Reference print
  • Started: 2004-07-01
    Ended: 2004-07-30
    
  • Method Description: A second camera was used to capture an image of the entire photo point landscape- camera, tripod, meter board and all- generating a reference print for each site to be used in the field to ensure follow up photomonitoring images depict the same scene

• Started: 2004-07-01
  Ended: 2004-07-30
• Sampling Description: All photographic products were digitalized and stored on CD to generate a long term permanent record of landscape conditions transcending the program disruptions that may come with periodic changes in staffing levels or expertise.