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Efficacy of Oak Savanna Restoration History Information Request

Oak Savanna Management History 2018-10-18.xlsx

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OMB: 1028-0125

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Instructions
Data Entry Form
Example Data
MENUS


Sheet 1: Instructions

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.

Sheet 2: Data Entry Form

DROPDOWN MENUS MANUAL DATA ENTRY
Site Type of Management Year Month Day Season Describing anything specific about the management Additional notes

Sheet 3: Example Data

DROPDOWN MENUS
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



SWMLC - Myers Thinning - Canopy (Date it occurred) 2006



Timber cut - shelterwood, targeted ___ size class
SWMLC - Myers Thinning - Shrub (Date it occurred) 2009 9


Loppers and herbicide
Other Seed addition (Date it occurred) 2007


Fall I will email species list separately
Other *Tillage (Date it stopped) 1947




Site never productive
Other *Grazing (Date it stopped) 1986





Other Fire (list date it occurred) 1965



Either occurred in 1964 or 1965 This was a wildfire set by sparks from the Such-and-such train line

Sheet 4: MENUS

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
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
1999
19
Indiana Dunes - Howe's Prairie Control
1998
20
Indiana Dunes - Inland Marsh Control
1997
21
Indiana Dunes - Inland Marsh Burn-Thin
1996
22
Indiana Dunes - Inland Marsh Burn
1995
23
Indiana Dunes - Miller Woods Control
1994
24
Indiana Dunes - Miller Woods Burn-Thin
1993
25
Indiana Dunes - Miller Marguette Burn
1992
26
Iron Creek - Andy's Hill
1991
27
Iron Creek - Coyote Hill
1990
28
Iron Creek - Krause Control
1989
29
Iron Creek - Sybil 001 Burn-Thin
1988
30
Kalamazoo - KVCC Control
1987
31
Kitty Todd - Islands Control
1986

Kitty Todd - Karner Burn-Thin
1985

Kitty Todd - Schafer Burn Only
1984

Kitty Todd - Schafer Burn-Thin
1983

Kitty Todd - Schwamberger Burn-Thin
1982

LCWM - B.D. White Burn-Thin
1980

LCWM - B.D. White Control
1979

Lowell - Huck Hills
1978

MacCready - Plot 1 Burn Only
1977

MacCready - Plot 2 Burn-Thin
1976

MacCready - Plot UN11 Control
1975

Manistee NF - Hayes Thin Only
1974

Manistee NF - Hayes Burn-Thin
1973

Manistee NF - Hayes Control
1972

Manistee NF - Otto Control
1971

Manistee NF - Otto Roosevelt East
1970

Manistee NF - Otto Roosevelt West
1969

Manistee NF - Pines Point Burn Only
1968

Manistee NF - Pines Point Burn-Thin
1967

Manistee NF - Pines Point Control
1966

Manistee NF - Pines Point Thin Only
1965

OO Metropark - Eber Thin Only
1964

OO Metropark - Old State Line Control
1963

SWMLC - Chipman East Woods Burn Only
1962

SWMLC - Keka
1961

SWMLC - Myers
1960

SWMLC - Portman Mud Lake Hill
1959

SWMLC - Wolf Tree N Kettle Hill
1958

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