Remonitoring of Province Lands Off-Road Vehicle Impact Sites

摘要

In September 1978, at the end of the Cape Cod growing season, all off-road vehicle impact and recovery plots in Cape Cod National Seashore were resampled, some for the fifth consecutive year. This study of the effects of off-road vehicles on the dunes and marshes of the seashore, which began in 1974, is reported comprehensively in the final 'marsh' report. That report and the present one concern themselves with some aspects of the long-term recovery of plots impacted in 1974 as well as plots that showed evidence of chronic longterm impact and that were closed to further driving in order to determine their natural vegetation cover.