08/24/2026
The Holt Research Forest Technicians have officially completed the latest 100% Complete Timber Inventory! This major feat was only possible thanks to the tireless efforts of several research technicians over the years who have dedicated their summers to collecting long-term ecological monitoring data with us.
100% Complete Timber Inventories are conducted by identifying, measuring, and recording the status of every single overstory tree within the study grid, which is just under 100 acres. 100% Complete Timber Inventories are typically completed once before and after planned harvests, and Partial Timber Inventories are completed every few years between harvests and complete inventories. With our unaggregated data, we can share a few snippets of information from this year’s summer data collection.
The top three overstory species our technician crew identified this summer, in order, are white pine, red oak, and red maple. Although the average diameter was only 28.1 cm, the largest tree they measured had a diameter of 135.2 cm!
Over the fall semester, we look forward to welcoming our Fall Data Management Intern, who will compile and summarize this and other datasets collected this past summer. Be on the lookout for more updates about our data collection and publishing. Also, check out our publicly available datasets on the femc data archive at www.uvm.edu/femc/holt!
