# 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


# Plot_observation_point

Comments:
Observation_point_name is 359903, 359905, or 359912 See comments on sensor.xls)


# 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:
had error in y location - updated from -66


Comment:
Specie=ABPR, corrected from TSHE based on datasheet


Comment:
ht or dbh are likely not correct - seems wrong but can't locate original datasheet to verify


Comment:
ht corrected from 66.7 based on yellow book and 70psme, and dbh corrected from 135.9


Comment:
ht corrected from 65.1 based on yellow book and 70psme, and dbh corrected from 107.4


Comment:
ht corrected from 63 based on yellow book, 70psme recorded ht as .5 rather than .3, dbh corrected from 132.3


Comment:
ht corrected from 61.8 based on yellow book and 70psme, and dbh corrected from 113.1


Comment:
ht corrected from 64.1 based on yellow book and 70 psme, and dbh corrected from 122.4


Comment:
ht corrected from 66 based on yellow book and 70psme, and dbh corrected from 140


Comment:
stem height corrected from 49.5 to reflect detailed stem taper measurement, and dbh corrected from 84.6


Comment:
ht corrected from 54.3 basedon yellow book and 70 psme, and dbh corrected from 86.7


Comment:
had in the stem tag field "176/170" corrected to 176, ht corrected from 54.2 based on yellow book and 70psme, and dbh corrected from 97.4


Comment:
stem height corrected from 43.7 based on stem taper detailed measurements, and dbh updated from 64.4, crown base and radii corrected from datasheet


Comment:
crown base and crown radii corrected based on datasheet


Comment:
ht corrected from 54, and dbh corrected from 85.5 based on 70 psme and rite in the rain book


Comment:
ht corrected from 54.7, and dbh corrected from 94.6 based on 70 psme and rite in the rain


Comment:
ht corrected from 49.1, and dbh from 89 based on 70 psme and rite in the rain


Comment:
height was recorded as 88, but clearly must be decimal error so updated to 8.8


