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    • ARCN Terrestrial Vegetation and Soils Database Export, 2025-05-19

    Metadata Updated: January 25, 2026

    The National Park Service (NPS) Arctic Network (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) program monitors physical and natural resources in the National Park lands of Alaska including Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park and Noatak National Preserve. Terrestrial Vegetation and Soils is one of the systems chosen by ARCN for long term scientific monitoring in the Parks. I&M has committed to the highest ideals of data quality by monitoring natural systems in the same way, year after year according to published protocols with the goal of providing reliable scientific information to Park managers . The heart of the data management system for the Terrestrial Vegetation and Soils monitoring program is a Microsoft SQL Server relational database which allows Arctic Network to meet its paramount duty: assuring the security, accessibility and longevity of the monitoring data into the future.

    In May, 2025 Arctic Network anticipates reductions in the federal work force that threaten the continued support and maintenance of this database. Consequently, Arctic Network is immediately publishing a snapshot of the Terrestrial Vegetation and Soils monitoring database as an emergency step in assuring the data remain available to the public despite the uncertainty of I&M’s future. This report documents the Terrestrial Vegetation and Soils database export files and their contents.

    Methods Methods are not described in this report but are fully documented and publicly available in the Terrestrial Vegetation and Soils monitoring protocol and standard operating procedures (Table 1).

    Table 1. Links to background resources. Website https://www.nps.gov/im/arcn/vegsoils.htm ProjectReference https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2220078

    Data Quality The data records in this release are provided ‘as-is’. Inventory and Monitoring data typically goes through a value-adding life cycle where data are collected, processed for quality, validated and then certified for analytical use. Under ideal circumstances I&M policy is to only publish fully certified and documented datasets. Due to the urgency with which these data are being published the user should recognize that some or all of the records in this data release may not have been shepherded through all quality control steps, and may or may not contain accurate indicators of quality. Arctic Network is publishing data of unconstrained quality in the belief that it will serve the public interest more than withholding the data entirely.

    Authority U.S. Government Works. Data and content created by government employees within the scope of their employment are not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. 105. Government works are by default in the U.S. Public Domain.

    Database Metadata See the MetadataTables and MetadataColumns database tables for descriptions.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 14, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date January 25, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI NPS DCAT-US

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 14, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date January 25, 2026
    Publisher National Park Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/NPS_DataStore_2313152
    Data First Published 2025-05-19T00:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-05-19T00:00:00Z
    Category Relational Database
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:24
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/nps-data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 77b02f2d-8c5f-404c-a3f9-e7d62cc55aaf
    Harvest Source Id d917c1a9-26b7-43ea-b8c5-c77ec750a850
    Harvest Source Title DOI NPS DCAT-US
    Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2313152
    Old Spatial -174,58.5,-145.4,71.3
    Program Code 010:118, 010:119
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash db112a0fd58d7c71468f81f93b6b4a6f2821ef781a34ced58f1a8213ccc84fc5
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -174, 58.5, -174, 71.3, -145.4, 71.3, -145.4, 58.5, -174, 58.5}
    Temporal 2009-01-01/2004-01-01

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