Browsing by Author "Olesiak, Rachael A"

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    Cover Types of the UMN Cloquet Forestry Center, 2021
    (2022-01-31) Gill, Kyle G.; Johnson, Lane B; Olesiak, Rachael A; kggill@umn.edu; Gill, Kyle G; University of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center; College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS); University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources
    Cover Types of the UMN Cloquet Forestry Center, 2021 is a polygon representation of forest stands and other vegetation types across the 3400-acre research forest. Polygon attributes represent the current status of forest inventory records for the CFC at the end of 2021 based on episodic updates to an original 2005 cover type mapping product.
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    Defining the University of Minnesota Experimental Forests Landbase
    (2019-12) Gill, Kyle G; Johnson, Lane B; Olesiak, Rachael A; Prange, Rebecca J; David, Andrew J
    According to the University of Minnesota Real Estate Office the Allred Trust, the Boone Trust, the Cloquet Forestry Center (CFC), and the Hubachek Wilderness Research Center (HWRC) are properties across northeastern Minnesota owned by the University of Minnesota that are to be used for natural resources education and research and administered by the Coordinator at the CFC. These primarily forested properties cover a total of 4196.8 acres. This technical note summarizes property information found in the University of Minnesota Real Estate Office Inventory Report (2018) and defines these properties as the land base associated with the Experimental Forests collection in the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.
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    University of Minnesota Experimental Forests project activity summary for 2022
    (2023-11) Gill, Kyle G; Olesiak, Rachael A
    This report provides an end-of-year update of the status of projects across the Experimental Forests network that were considered Active in 2022 in the project records data management system. A total of 103 projects had a status of either Active or Long-term during 2022. Projects had 62 unique leaders. A total of 44 projects has a primary purpose categorized as Research, 26 as Demonstration/Case Study/Monitoring, 18 as Teaching/Education/Outreach, eight as Other, and seven as Management. Eighteen new projects were accessioned into the project records database, seventeen of which had their status transition from Proposed to Active. All project leaders were contacted to submit a year-end status update for each project through a Google Form-based year end check-in survey. A total of 87 projects had their status updated through survey responses and 16 were updated through other forms of communication. At the end of the check-in, 87 projects retained a status of Active, 11 projects a status of Complete, and five a status of Long-term, meaning that they have been Active for 10 or more years.