FIELD NOTES - transcribed from crew notebooks (do not trust verbatim)
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ME-PEN-004  6/14/19  Crew B-1
  Plot relocated ~35 m NE of stored coords; GPS would not lock under canopy.
  Heavy balsam fir mortality, spruce budworm sign on ~40% of fir. Flagging left.

ME-PIS-009
  Access via old tote road, washed out at 2.1 mi. 4WD required.
  Slope steeper than map suggests, maybe 30-35%. Aspect reading taken twice.

ME-SOM-011  09-Aug-2021
  Windstorm damage from Oct 2019 still evident - approx 30% windthrow in NW
  quarter of plot. Some trees measured from top of blowdown (dbh estimated).

ME-ARO-015
  NOTE: height pole broken, heights estimated by clinometer + pacing. +/- 15%.
  Trees 3, 4, 7 -- dbh re-measured twice, first reading discarded (bark snag).

ME-HAN-021  10/2/2022
  Cedar swamp, wading. Plot center stake lost; used bearing/distance from
  witness tree (yellow birch, blazed). Soil auger hit refusal at ~40 cm.

NH-COO-028
  Crew D-1. Time constraint - only 6 trees tallied, subplot 2 skipped entirely.
  Recorded "TBD" for crown class on several stems. Needs remeasure.

VT-ORL-033   July 2023
  Plot overlaps recent select-cut (2021). Cut stumps present, ~8 stems/acre.
  Volume figures likely overestimate residual stand.

General:
  - species codes entered from memory on plots 12-18, verify against list
  - several date fields written as "6/14" without year (assume 2019 season)
  - units confusion on height: some crews used metric rods
  - duplicate tally sheets found for plots ME-PEN-004 and ME-SOM-011
