1. Training Materials Marking Your Site and Individual Plants

2. www.usanpn.org/participate/guidelines 2 1.Select a site 2.Select plant and animal species 3.Select individual plants 4.Mark your site and plants 5.Record your observations of animals 6.Record your observations of plants 7.Report your data online

3. Why mark sites? 3 Relocate site

4. Why mark plants? 4 Relocate individuals Ensure observations are from same individual

5. RED MAPLE-2 RED MAPLE-1 RED MAPLE-3

6. 6 Marking your site Flagging tape or scrap cloth Natural or human-made landmarks A site corner marked with painted rebar and colored flagging tape

7. Marking trees or shrubs Flagging tape marked with permanent ink Small aluminum tags 7 Using flagging tape to mark plants.

8. 8 Marking trees or shrubs Flagging tape marked with permanent ink Small aluminum tags Aluminum tree tags.

9. Small pins or toothpicks Small stakes such as chopsticks 9 Marking grasses and herbaceous plants Colored toothpick

10. Receive permission before marking your site or plants on public lands Proper permission 10

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