| U.S. Geological Survey and Michigan State University Questionnaire to Land Managers for the Efficacy of Oak Savanna Restoration Project |
| Dear property manager/partner, thank you for agreeing to provide management data for the sites that you manage. We greatly appreciate the time and energy you have already offered to assist our efforts to better understand oak savanna restoration in the upper Midwest. In order to complement the field data we collected, we would like to assemble information on the management history of each site we sampled. These data will help us make more exact inferences on the effects of management, and compare the importance of management to pre-management site history. The data you provide will allow us to examine the relationships among oak savanna vegetation condition (composition, richness, diversity, and structure) with past management actions such as burning, thinning, seeding or other management actions. We have employed dropdown menus for many of the fields in this excel spreadsheet to make your task as easy as possible. Thanks. |
| Office of Management and Budget (OMB) number: TBD |
| Geographic scope of study: northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana, lower Michigan, northwest Ohio and southeast Wisconsin |
| Three tabs: there are three tabs. The first is the "Data Entry Form" where you will enter your data. The second contains "Example Data." The last and final tab lists the menus that populate the dropdown windows in the data entry form. You should not need to change the third tab. |
| Data entry: Go to the tab labeled “Data Entry Form” that has a combination of drop-down menus and manual data entry. We ask that you list each “management event” separately for each site we sampled, that is one event per line. First, select a site from the drop down menu indicated by the small triangle that appears at the lower right of the cell – we have provided you with a map indicating where each site in your management area is located. Please ask if you are not sure. Second, indicate the management event you are reporting. We are interested in two categories of management events: 1) The occurrence of specific management events that may encourage restoration - Fire – Prescribed and Wildfire, Thinning – Canopy and Shrub layers, and Seed Addition and 2) The data of cessation of intensive management events: Tillage and Grazing. Therefore, if a site was burned 3 times, thinned 2 times, and had seed added 1 time, and has both a known tillage and grazing history, that site would have 8 lines of data. Third, enter as much info about the date as you know. Fourth, if you only know the year, then please provide the Season that management occurred, if you know that. Fifth and Sixth, provide in your own words any additional info you wish to share about the types of management specifically and any other random notes about the site or the history of the site you think might be relevant or useful. If the date or year is approximate, please clarify that in the “management notes” column. There is also a tab labeled “Example Data” that gives an indication of what kinds of info should go in each column. Finally, we would like to get a sense of how far back your (or available institutional) knowledge of management goes at your site(s). For example, if you have detailed records back to 2000, less certain records back to 1980, and no records before that – we would love to know. We may follow up with a phone call to clarify those kinds of details. The questions are summarized below. |
| Thank you: Eric Behrens, Dr. Tyler Bassett, Dr. Lars Brudvig, Dr. Noel Pavlovic and Dr. Ralph Grundel |
| If you have questions contact Eric Behrens at eric.g.behrens@gmail.com, (712)330-7189 |
| The questions are: |
| Question 1: Site – the name of the site is selected, needed to relate site management information to vegetation data |
| Question 2: Type of management – options include, these items tell us about the management. that has occurred at each sites. We need this information to help us understand how management has influenced the ground layer vegetation. Each management event will be a separate line in the excel spreadsheet. |
| Fire - Prescribed (list date it occurred) |
| Fire - Wildfire (list date it occurred) |
| Thinning - Canopy (list date it occurred) |
| Thinning - Shrub (list date it occurred) |
| Seed addition (list date it occurred) |
| Tillage (list date it stopped) |
| Grazing (list date it stopped) |
| Question 3: Year, the year that the selected management type occurred. If known. Without this information we cannot calculate time since the last burn and variables such as fire return interval. |
| Question 4: Month, the month the selected management occurred if known. |
| Question 5: Day, the day of the month when the selected management occurred, if known. |
| Question 6: Season – season of the treatment, if known. If the month and day are not known but the manager can tell us the season, then we will be able to examine the seasonality of treatment on groundlayer vegetation condition. |
| Question 7: Describing anything specific about the management: opportunity for manager to provide additional information about that particular management event such as partial burn or high intensity burn |
| Question 8: Additional notes, any other notes that the manager wants to add. |
| DROPDOWN MENUS |
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MANUAL DATA ENTRY |
| Site |
Type of Management |
Year |
Month |
Day |
(Blank) |
Season |
Management Notes |
Other Notes |
| SWMLC - Chipman East Woods Burn Only |
Fire (Date it occurred) |
2007 |
4 |
3 |
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| SWMLC - Myers |
Thinning - Canopy (Date it occurred) |
2006 |
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Timber cut - shelterwood, targeted ___ size class |
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| SWMLC - Myers |
Thinning - Shrub (Date it occurred) |
2009 |
9 |
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Loppers and herbicide |
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| Other |
Seed addition (Date it occurred) |
2007 |
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Fall |
I will email species list separately |
|
| Other |
*Tillage (Date it stopped) |
1947 |
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Site never productive |
| Other |
*Grazing (Date it stopped) |
1986 |
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| Other |
Fire (list date it occurred) |
1965 |
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Either occurred in 1964 or 1965 |
This was a wildfire set by sparks from the Such-and-such train line |
| Site |
Type of Event |
Year |
Month |
Day |
| ASGA - 126th Ave. Barrens |
Fire - Prescribed (list date it occurred) |
2017 |
1 |
1 |
| ASGA - 126th Ave. Control |
Fire - Wildfire (list date it occurred) |
2016 |
2 |
2 |
| ASGA - 126th Ave. Timber Cut |
Thinning - Canopy (list date it occurred) |
2015 |
3 |
3 |
| ASGA - 46th Ave |
Thinning - Shrub (list date it occurred) |
2014 |
4 |
4 |
| ASGA - 48th Ave. |
Seed addition (list date it occurred) |
2013 |
5 |
5 |
| Dunes State Park - Control |
Tillage (list date it stopped) |
2012 |
6 |
6 |
| Dunes State Park - Burn |
Grazing (list date it stopped) |
2011 |
7 |
7 |
| Dunes State Park - Burn-Thin |
|
2010 |
8 |
8 |
| FCTC - Area 7 SE "mound" |
|
2009 |
9 |
9 |
| FCTC - Hart's Lake West Woods |
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2008 |
10 |
10 |
| Indiana Nature Preserves McCloskey Burr Oak Savanna |
|
2007 |
11 |
11 |
| Shirley Heinze Land Trust Bur Oak Woods Burn-Thin |
|
2006 |
12 |
12 |
| Save The Dunes Peddicord Property South Control |
|
2005 |
|
13 |
| Indiana Dunes - Calumet Burn Only |
|
2004 |
|
14 |
| Indiana Dunes - Calumet Control |
|
2003 |
|
15 |
| Indiana Dunes - Calumet Thin Only |
|
2002 |
|
16 |
| Indiana Dunes - Hobart Prairie Grove Burn Only |
|
2001 |
|
17 |
| Indiana Dunes - Howe's Prairie Burn Only |
|
2000 |
|
18 |
| Indiana Dunes - Howe's Prairie Burn-Thin |
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1999 |
|
19 |
| Indiana Dunes - Howe's Prairie Control |
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1998 |
|
20 |
| Indiana Dunes - Inland Marsh Control |
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1997 |
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21 |
| Indiana Dunes - Inland Marsh Burn-Thin |
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1996 |
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22 |
| Indiana Dunes - Inland Marsh Burn |
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1995 |
|
23 |
| Indiana Dunes - Miller Woods Control |
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1994 |
|
24 |
| Indiana Dunes - Miller Woods Burn-Thin |
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1993 |
|
25 |
| Indiana Dunes - Miller Marguette Burn |
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1992 |
|
26 |
| Iron Creek - Andy's Hill |
|
1991 |
|
27 |
| Iron Creek - Coyote Hill |
|
1990 |
|
28 |
| Iron Creek - Krause Control |
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1989 |
|
29 |
| Iron Creek - Sybil 001 Burn-Thin |
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1988 |
|
30 |
| Kalamazoo - KVCC Control |
|
1987 |
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31 |
| Kitty Todd - Islands Control |
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1986 |
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| Kitty Todd - Karner Burn-Thin |
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1985 |
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| Kitty Todd - Schafer Burn Only |
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1984 |
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| Kitty Todd - Schafer Burn-Thin |
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1983 |
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| Kitty Todd - Schwamberger Burn-Thin |
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1982 |
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| LCWM - B.D. White Burn-Thin |
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1980 |
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| LCWM - B.D. White Control |
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1979 |
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| Lowell - Huck Hills |
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1978 |
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| MacCready - Plot 1 Burn Only |
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1977 |
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| MacCready - Plot 2 Burn-Thin |
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1976 |
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| MacCready - Plot UN11 Control |
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1975 |
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| Manistee NF - Hayes Thin Only |
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1974 |
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| Manistee NF - Hayes Burn-Thin |
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1973 |
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| Manistee NF - Hayes Control |
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1972 |
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| Manistee NF - Otto Control |
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1971 |
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| Manistee NF - Otto Roosevelt East |
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1970 |
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| Manistee NF - Otto Roosevelt West |
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1969 |
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| Manistee NF - Pines Point Burn Only |
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1968 |
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| Manistee NF - Pines Point Burn-Thin |
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1967 |
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| Manistee NF - Pines Point Control |
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1966 |
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| Manistee NF - Pines Point Thin Only |
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1965 |
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| OO Metropark - Eber Thin Only |
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1964 |
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| OO Metropark - Old State Line Control |
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1963 |
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| SWMLC - Chipman East Woods Burn Only |
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1962 |
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| SWMLC - Keka |
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1961 |
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| SWMLC - Myers |
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1960 |
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| SWMLC - Portman Mud Lake Hill |
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| SWMLC - Wolf Tree N Kettle Hill |
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