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Spring Maple Monitoring Results, Circumference vs. Habitat

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This figure compares the average circumference of maple trees found growing in different habitats such as school lawns, school gardens, home lawns, and in natural settings. Data shown here includes spring data on sugar and other maple trees, collected primarily by North Country K-12 students participating in Monitor My Maple from 2014-2016. The figure is available as a .pdf file, feel free to use this data as an example in classroom lessons, for math exercises, or whatever you can think of. Let us know how you use it, and what other results you're interested in seeing or if you'd like to the data exported in a different fomat. 

 

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5-8
9-12
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Living Environment
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