Data Use Agreement:

Any Andrews Experimental Forest data set and accompanying metadata available on these web pages can be downloaded for academic, research, recreational, and other professional purposes. Permission to download data sets is granted to the Data User without a fee subject to the following terms. The Data User will:

• notify the designated contact (e.g., Principle Investigator or Data Set Contact) when any derivative work based on or derived from the data and documentation is distributed;
• notify users that such derivative work is a modified version and not the original data and documentation distributed by the Andrews LTER;
• not redistribute original data and documentation;
• acknowledge the support of the Andrews LTER and appropriate NSF Grant numbers in any publications using these data and documentation. (See general acknowledgement below and see web page for specific data citation for each study data set);
• send two reprints of any publications resulting from use of the data and documentation to the following address: Andrews Experimental Forest LTER Program, c/o Don Henshaw, Forestry Sciences Lab, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331

By using or copying these data and documentation, the Data User agrees to abide by the terms of this agreement. The Andrews Experimental Forest LTER Site shall have the right to terminate this agreement immediately by written notice upon the Data User's breach of, or non-compliance with, any of its terms. The Data User may be held responsible for any misuse that is caused or encouraged by the Data User's failure to abide by the terms of this agreement. Thank you for your cooperation. We hope your collaboration with our site is a productive one!

Disclaimer: While substantial efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of data and documentation, complete accuracy of data sets cannot be guaranteed. All data are made available "as is". The Andrews Experimental Forest LTER shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of data sets.

General acknowledgement: Data were provided by the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest research program, funded by the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Program (DEB 08-23380), US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, and Oregon State University.