# Branch

Comments:
azimuth recorded as 390 - updated to be 39 degrees based on yellow book


# Decay_class

Description:
bark intact; twigs<3m in diameter present; texture-wood intact; log corss-section round; wood original color, log elevated on support points.


Description:
bark intact; twigs<3m in diameter absent; texture-wood intact to partly soft; log corss-section round; wood original color; log elevated on support points but sagging slightly


Description:
bark loose and missing in places; twigs<3m in diameter absent; texture-wood hard but in large pieces; log corss-section round; wood original color to faded; log sagging and near ground


Description:
bark absent; twigs<3cm in diameter absent; texture-wood chunks small, soft, and blocky; log cross-section round to oval; wood color light to faded brown or yellow; all of log on ground


Description:
bark and twigs<3cm in diameter absent; texture-wood soft and powdery; log cross-section oval; wood color faded to light yellow or gray; all of log on ground


Description:
Recently dead branch with fine branching structure and bark still intact.


Description:
General branching structure remains, but bark is beginning to slough


Description:
Branching structure is mostly gone. Bark is sloughing


Description:
Bark is mostly gone and the exposed wood is beginning to decay.


Description:
Bark is completely gone and the exposed wood is deteriorating.


# Measurement_device_type

Description:
2 liter plastic soda bottles with funnels


# Site

Access_Directions:
see information packet for researchers available for download from website

Access_Restrictions:
see information packet for researchers available for download from website

Comments:
Aggregate values from Van Pelt and Nadkarni 2004


# Species

Comments:
Is no longer Berberis, but instead Mahonia, MANE2 in plants database


Comments:
Castanopsis chrysophylla not accepted by IT IS - CHCHC4 in plants db


Comments:
most likely Pacific dogwood, but not confirmed in the field


Comments:
most likely elderberry, but not confirmed in the field


Comments:
was recorded in MC originally as species 54


Comments:
updated to Frangula from Rhamnus - rhamnus no longer accepted by IT IS


Comments:
callicarpa not accepted by IT IS - updated to racemosa - plants database uses SARAR3


Comments:
This is a species that could not be identified in the field


Comments:
according to plants DB, this is not found in WA


# Stem

Comment:
height from PSME errorCk17.xls - seems to match with this stem, book 7 (stem 59 - only taper and fuzz - there are no branch measuremenst for this one, dbh updated from 18.5 based on stem taper


# Stem_taper

Comments:
entered from book 7 - no branch data collected for this stem - only taper and fuzz


