Vegetation - Riparian Vegetation of The Gwynns Falls Watershed BES ID 404-

110 100 square meter plots located along 56 randomly selected transects across 1st to 4th order streams in the riparian section of the watershed. Plots are located on digital aerial photographs in GIS. In each 100 square meter plot, all trees greater than or equal to 2.5 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) were identified to species and measured. All stems less than 2..5 cm DBH and greater than or equal to 1 m in height were counted. Four 1 square meter plots were established around the plot center, where percent cover of herbaceous species and species of woody seedlings were estimated using a 1 square meter frame divided into a grid of 100 10 square meter cells.