Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Kat Bormann and the rest of the ASO team for their guidance in acquiring and processing lidar datasets. Thanks also to collaborators at Open Topography and NCALM for the opportunity to collect and present (through open-source platforms) high-resolution, spatially-distributed lidar data. This study was funded by Proposition 68 the Sierra Nevada Conservancy through the California Tahoe Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, Grant 1149, project P68IP001. A. Harpold and C. Piske were partially supported by NSF EAR #2012310 and EAR #1723990. C. Piske was partially supported by the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium (NNX15AI02H).