Four members of Denali's plant crew work on monitoring vegetation through measurements with the goal of quantifying vegetation (4ef0e68b-0dda-4263-8145-e83bf3181e08)

a woman holding a topographic map with circles drawn on it
Four members of Denali's plant crew work on monitoring vegetation through measurements with the goal of quantifying vegetation for statistical purposes. They work with a 16-diameter circle plot of soil and take measurements of plants and soils. Each plot takes between 2-5 hours. The plot seen here, on Thursday, July 27, 2017, was last measured in 2004 and is near mile 5 of the park road. In 2017, the crew completed 35 plot surveys in Denali National Park as part of the Central Alaska Network Vegetation Monitoring Program.