Dawn Meadow, 2025 season

Planting records check · 9 Nov 2026 · planting-log-2025.xlsx (3 sheets, 1,214 rows), site-map.kml (6 areas)

Assumed: these records are for planning next season, and the day total is the planted count.

Made-up example

Where your records stand

  • Bad
  • Weak
  • OK
  • Good

Who planted?

Weak
  1. Partner only
  2. Names, spelled many ways
  3. Same ID everywhere
  • Yes: Every row names a planter (column C)
  • No: 11 spellings for what looks like 7 planters
  • No: No planter ID
AC
1DatePlanter
1412/05/2025J. Quispe
5214/05/2025Juan Quispe
20302/06/2025JUAN QUISPE
Log 2025

Planted what?

OK
  1. Total only
  2. Species, no counts
  3. Count per species
  4. Counts that add up
  • Yes: A count per species (E–G)
  • Yes: Counts match the day total on 41 of 44 days
  • No: 3 days where they don’t
AEFGH
1DateCedrelaIngaCordiaDay total
14120/05/20251208060280
37709/06/20259511040225
Log 2025

Exactly where?

OK
  1. Place name
  2. GPS point
  3. Area as planned
  4. Area as planted
  • Yes: 6 planned outlines (site-map.kml)
  • No: No outline of where planting stopped
NameTypeDescription
1A1PolygonPlanned planting area
2A2PolygonPlanned planting area
site-map.kml

And when?

OK
  1. Year only
  2. Month or season
  3. Planting date
  4. Date and its follow-ups
  • Yes: Every row has a planting date (A)
  • No: No later visit points back to a planting
AB
1DateAreaFollow-up visit
202/05/2025A1not in file
302/05/2025A1not in file
Log 2025

Can you trust them?

  • Big gaps
  • Some gaps
  • Pass
  • Can't tell

Exhaustive

Every site there?
Big gaps
  • Yes: 5 of 6 mapped areas have plantings
  • No: Area A6 has none
  • To confirm: Was anything planted in A6?
NameTypeRows in Log 2025
5A5Polygon212
6A6Polygon0
site-map.kml

Complete

Key fields filled?
Some gaps
  • Yes: 1,176 of 1,214 rows name a species
  • No: 38 rows have none, all from 12–13 May
ABEH
1DateAreaSpeciesTrees
41012/05/2025A360
41112/05/2025A345
43613/05/2025A480
Log 2025

Correct

Values right?
Some gaps
  • Yes: Surviving is at or below planted in 5 of 6 areas
  • No: Suspected: A3 counts 212 surviving, 180 planted
ABC
1AreaPlantedSurviving
4A3180212
Survival

Current

Recent enough?
Can't tell
  • Yes: A survival count for each area
  • No: No count has a visit date, so nothing says how the trees are doing now
AC
1AreaSurvivingVisit date
2A1164not in file
3A2201not in file
Survival

Fix first

  1. No stable ID for each planter.Give each planter an ID and use it in the log.
  2. Areas are planned, not planted.Mark the planted edge of each area on the next planting day.
  3. Survival counts have no date or planting.Add the visit date, area ID and planting date to each count.

Only your team can answer

  • Is "North block" in the log the same place as area A2 on the map?
  • On the 3 days where species counts and the day total differ, which is right?
  • Was anything planted in area A6?
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