Project Monitoring
~Vegetation Monitoring~

     SFEG staff and volunteers create plots to monitor the vegetation planted at project sites. A piece of rebar or a wooden stake marks the middle of each plot, and a bearing point is drawn from an established benchmark so as not to lose our plot locations. The plots are 24 feet in diameter, and a minimum of 10% of the total area of the re-vegetated site is covered by these plots. First, the shade available to the plants, soil or sediment type, and ground cover are all noted. Then the species, number of plants of that species, and the health of that species (healthy, stressed, or dead) is recorded. Each plant within the plot is also measured in height, width, and caliper width. The plants are then checked for damages. General comments are made and recommendations are made for summer maintenance.