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SUNY ESF offers county-level forest and shrubland data to Columbia County task force

Columbia County Climate Task Force / Climate Smart Communities Task Force · January 9, 2024
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County staff said SUNY ESF's Climate and Applied Forest Research Institute (CAFRE) offered to clip statewide forest and canopy-height layers to Columbia County, provide time-series data (1990–2023) and a shrubland layer using 2016 and 2022 lidar to help identify areas of forest regeneration vs. persistent shrubland.

Representatives of Columbia County’s climate task force said a SUNY ESF researcher offered to provide county-specific forest and shrubland datasets and to use Columbia County as a test case to refine shrubland-to-forest modeling.

County staff described conversations with Colin Beer at SUNY ESF’s Climate and Applied Forest Research Institute (CAFRE). CAFRE can take statewide forest-cover and canopy-height layers and…

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