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Am I looking at the right tree?
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That might help.
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Yeah, it's a ton of fun.
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I really enjoy it.
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You know, you get out to these different places.
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I was just going to be like, Matt, I might need your help.
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Having the river and the gorge with all the rockiness, I just think is really neat.
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And just like the diversity of trees and shrubs and things that you find here.
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Hi, I'm Sammy Demers with Outside Science Inside Parks.
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We're at New River Gorge, the newest national park.
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Park scientists and interns here are combing the forest to keep an eye on all the plants that make this place so special.
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It can be kind of messy on some days, so get ready.
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Forests are really important to these parks.
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And if we don't know what's happening in the forest, we can't manage them appropriately.
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So going to these monitoring locations over time and really checking on what the forest is doing, how is it changing,
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is important to inform the management in the parks.
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We have a certain select number of plots that we visit every year.
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And in those plots,
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we look at the number of trees in the plot, how healthy the trees look,
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whether there's any damage to the trees, any invasive species or things like that that could harm the trees.
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We also look at regeneration.
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So like what's coming up on the forest floor, what kind of seedlings are there, how tall they are, what species they are.
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We also look at every sort of species within the plot, you know, record what's there.
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Four and ten.
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So we also will look at how tall the tree is, whether it's a canopy tree or a sub canopy tree.
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It's very tough in the rain to do.
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And after all that, we characterize the stand.
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How dense is the shrub layer?
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How open is the canopy?
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And so really getting a sense of what the forest is like.
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Yeah, sometimes those rainy days can be hard just because you're wet all day.
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But it's nice being out in the fields and getting to move around and do practical things instead of just sitting in an office all day.
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There's an oxydendron 42 6.4.
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And it's also really nice to know that, you know, you're trying to make a difference in keeping the forest how they were.
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And, you know, it's really neat.
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20.8.
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It's incredible to take young people out in the woods and help them discover all of the things that are out there.
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And it's always an adventure and we always see something new.
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And it's just really fun to share that with young people every summer.
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A lot of trees.
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A lot of my career has just been academic and like class the room learning with some excursions.
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And so I think actually getting more hands on experience with tree identification and getting to know different landscapes is really valuable.
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You go way off the trail in some of these places, have to cross the river.
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I know there's been plots where we have to like wait across the river in a real shallow section.
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We get over, we hike off a trail in the middle of nowhere.
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And then there's a really old house foundation there.
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And that's just really cool to see because you're like, who knows how many people even really know about it besides us.
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Even the hard days are fun.
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And if it wasn't fun while you were doing it, it has a fun story at the end.
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And it all goes to a greater cause.
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So even if we're wet or hot or tired, it's still an adventure.
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I totally thought there was like another one that came in and I was like, no, that's the same tree.
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I think it's really nice.
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Like it's something that makes me really happy to think about that.
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I can go and do science and a lot of really cool things.
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I think it's really nice. Like it's something that makes me really happy to think about that. I can go and do science and a lot of really cool things.
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I can go and do science and a lot of really cool things.
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Thanks for watching this episode of Outside Science Inside Parks.
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We'll see you next time.
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