SAVEM--Southern Appalachian Volunteer Environmental Monitoring

Invasive Plant Inventory & Monitoring Project

• News
• Procedures and Forms
• Create tabular reports from data (»SAIN)
• Download map (GIS) data (»SAIN)
• Project Areas
  • Nantahala/Franklin (NC)
  • Hot Springs (NC)
  • Western Smokies (TN)
  • Asheville (NC)
  • Mt. Rogers (VA)

News

• Read our first Success Story: "Volunteer Monitoring of Invasive Plants Leads to Control Action at Standing Indian Campground, Nantahala National Forest" (a PDF file)

Procedures and Forms

• Review and print the surveying methodology--in HTML or PDF
• Review and print the procedure for the Garmin GPS 12XL (a PDF file) or the GPS Procedure for the Garmin GPS 72 (a PDF file)
• Review and print SAMAB's Invasive Plant Monitoring Data Sheet (Level 1) (a PDF file)

Project Areas

• Nantahala/Franklin (NC) Project Area Invasive Plant Surveying
  • Volunteer Partners: Nantahala Hiking Club (ATC Affiliate)
    • Volunteer Photo Gallery
    • Graph showing volunteer hours Fall 2002-Fall 2003
  • Monitoring Charts/Graphs
    • Invasive Exotic Plant Occurrences Fall 2002-Spring 2003
  • Static Maps on the SAIN web site
  • Interactive Map on the SAIN web site
  • 3-dimensional terrain fly-thru (on the SAIN web site--scroll down page to find link)

• Hot Springs (NC) Project Area Invasive Plant Surveying
  • Volunteer Partners: Hot Springs Mountain Club; interested individuals
    • Volunteer Photo Gallery
    • Graph showing volunteer hours 2002-2004
  • Monitoring Charts/Graphs:
    • Invasive Exotic Plant Occurrences 2002-2004
  • Static Maps on the SAIN web site
  • Interactive Map on the SAIN web site
  • 3-dimensional terrain fly-thru (on the SAIN web site--scroll down page to find link)

• Western Smokies (TN) Project Area Invasive Plant Surveying
  • Volunteer Partners: Pittman Center town officials; Walters State Community College; interested individuals
    • Volunteer Photo Gallery
    • Graph showing volunteer hours Fall 2002-Fall 2003
  • Monitoring Charts/Graphs
    • Invasive Exotic Plant Occurrences Fall 2002-Spring 2003
  • Static Maps on the SAIN web site
  • Interactive Map on the SAIN web site

• Asheville (NC)-- expected in 2004
• Interactive Map on the SAIN web site

• Mt. Rogers (VA)
  • Volunteer Partners:
    • Volunteer Photo Gallery
  • Static Maps on the SAIN web site
  • Interactive Map on the SAIN web site