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Lichen Biomonitoring in the USDA Forest Service

  • Webinar recording
  • Presentation slides

Biomonitoring Field Collection Forms

  • Lichen packet cover
  • Field data sheet for lichen monitoring plots
  • Additional information data sheets for off-grid plots
    • Western US
    • Eastern US

Biomonitoring Protocols

  • User Guide for the National Forest Inventory and Analysis Lichen Database
  • Analyzing Lichen Indicator Data in the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program
  • Lichen Elemental Indicators for Air Pollution in Eastern United States Forests: A Pilot Study in the Upper Midwest
  • Manual for Monitoring Air Quality Using Lichens on National Forests of the Pacific Northwest
    • Appendix I
  • Status and Future of the Forest Health Indicators Program of the USA
A Forest Service staff member collecting lichens in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska.
Forest Service staff collecting a lichen specimen in the South Etolin Wilderness in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska.
Photo by Karen Dillman, U.S. Forest Service.
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