Long-term monitoring grid

Our grid was established in 2014, and spans the entire research forest, in addition to areas north and west of the research forest.

The grid consists of 72 sites, each site has 2 cameras, one acoustic recording unit (ARU), and two ways to collect hair samples. These sites allow us to track wildlife habitat use, abundance, and behavior over time.

Data was collected from this grid in 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021, and 2022. We have begun the next round of data collection in winter of 2025.

In fall of 2024 we added a grid of 78 temperature loggers to our land base to record temperature and relative humidity every 30 minutes. We chose a variety of sites based on slope, aspect, and cover types from our LiDAR inventory.