uid=HFR,o=lter,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org all public read doi:10.6073/pasta/418a18b78a45616477753d1e56b7ad35 David Foster https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1171-3762 Ernest Gould Brian Hall 2023 English

As part of retrospective studies of land-use across New England, information was compiled on forest cover and human population for the New England states. The states share a common history of deforestation for agriculture followed by farm abandonment and natural reforestation with the exception of northern Maine, which was never densely settled and largely remained forested. The extent to which these secondary forests differ in structure and function from permanently wooded areas or the forests of the pre-settlement period forms a major research emphasis of Harvard Forest studies.

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Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html CC0-1.0 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf013 New England. Coordinates based on WGS84 datum. -74.3 -66.9 +47.5 +40.5 0 1900 meter 1600 2015 complete Information Manager Harvard Forest

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Data were compiled by E. Gould, D.R. Foster, and Brian Hall. Population data are from the U.S. Census; forest cover data are from Baldwin (1942), and United States Forest Service reports. See Detailed Metadata section below for specific forest acreage sources Harvard Forest researchers have used the following total acres for the region in the Wildlands and Woodlands reports: CT - 3,181,474; MA - 5,179,328; ME - 20,845,028; NH - 5,941,024; RI - 690,129; VT - 6,154,039; New England - 41,991,023

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(978) 724-3302 (978) 724-3595 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu https://ror.org/059cpzx98 pointOfContact The Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program examines ecological dynamics in the New England region resulting from natural disturbances, environmental change, and human impacts. National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210. hf013-01-forest-acres.csv forest area hf013-01-forest-acres.csv 1964 ced7c40a7df3ea2787f1ca6cb4fed265 1 \r\n column , https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p01/hf013/hf013-01-forest-acres.csv year year YYYY source source 1 Baldwin, H. I. 1942. Forestry in New England. National Resources Planning Board Publication 70, Boston, Massachusetts 2 U.S. Forest Service Reappraisal Project figures 3 USFS. 1958. Timber resources for America’s future. USFS USDA Forest Resource Report no. 14 4 USFS. 1965. Timber trends in the United States. USFS USDA Forest Resource Report No. 17 5 USFS. 1973. The outlook for timber in the United States. USFS USDA Forest Resource Report No. 20 6 USFS. 1990. New England’s forests. USFS USDA Northeastern Forest Experiment Station NE-INF-91-90 7 USFS Northeastern Research Station FIA Website, March 2003. www.fs.fed.us/ne/fia/states.main.html. Date listed as 1998; actual FIA inventory for each state: CT, 1998; MA, 1998; ME, 1995; NH, 1997; RI, 1998; VT, 1997 8 USFS Northern Research Station FIA Website, November 2008. http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/ 9 USFS Northern Research Station FIA Website, August 2015. http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/ 10 USFS Northern Research Station FIA Website, July 2016. http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/ ct forest area in acres for Connecticut acre 1 whole NA missing value ma forest area in acres for Massachusetts acre 1 whole NA missing value me forest area in acres for Maine acre 1 whole NA missing value nh forest area in acres for New Hampshire acre 1 whole NA missing value ri forest area in acres for Rhode Island acre 1 whole NA missing value vt forest area in acres for Vermont acre 1 whole NA missing value ne forest area in acres for New England acre 1 whole NA missing value note notes on data sources for specific years hurricane name assigned by the US National Hurricane Center or World Meteorological Organization (1950-1997) 28 hf013-02-population.csv human population hf013-02-population.csv 1466 ae39be50eac04839b3aa429b399988dd 1 \r\n column , https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p01/hf013/hf013-02-population.csv year year Every 10 years for 1770-2000 and every 20 years for 1630-1750 YYYY ct human population in Connecticut number 1 natural NA missing value ma human population in Massachusetts number 1 natural NA missing value me human population in Maine number 1 natural NA missing value nh human population in New Hampshire number 1 natural NA missing value ri human population in Rhode Island number 1 natural NA missing value vt human population in Vermont number 1 natural NA missing value 32 hf013-03-new-england-population.csv human population in New England hf013-03-new-england-population.csv 78 f8cd2f28bc58d0f13784f39574e67398 1 \r\n column , https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p01/hf013/hf013-03-new-england-population.csv year year of the data YYYY new.eng.pop human population in New England number 1 natural NA missing value 4 conservation historical regional long-term measurement historical https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf014 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf044 https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf087