For a great introduction to the project, please take a minute to look over a couple of recent articles on the Mega-Transect project that was published in the Fall 2008 issue of the Journal of The American Chestnut Foundation. Just click each of the links below for PDFs of those articles.

Marmet K, and S. Fitzsimmons. 2008. The Appalachian Trail MEGA-Transect Chestnut Project: A Preliminary Pilot Project Report. The Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation. 22(2): 11-18

Paillet F. 2008. Sketches of the MEGA-Transect Project. The Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation. 22(2): 19-21

Link to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy's webpage about the Mega-Transect

The chestnut count is only a small part of a larger effort. Read more by clicking the following link: The AT Mega Transect

Click here for a list of downloadable segment maps
ORIGINAL FORMS	DATA FILES
Chestnut Count DOC, 21 KB	Tree Counts XLS - 300 KB
Large Tree Report DOC, 23 KB	Segments along trail XLS - 250 KB
Project Description DOC, 27 KB	Large Trees that were found XLS - 20 KB

Powerpoint given at 25th Annual Meeting of TACF
PPT - 4.5 MB

Dr. Songlin Fei Presentation
Mammoth Cave data
PDF, 8 MB

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Eric Weise Datasets (all datasets have been published with permission from Eric).

10 AC AVG - xls, 142KB

10 elevation avg - xls, 74KB

12-03 elevation - xls, 85KB

Wiese_AT_chestnut_data - xls, 268KB

DOWNLOADABLE MAPS and CHARTS by SEGMENT