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-The neonutilities package is currently not accepting external contributions. If you have a suggestion for a fix or enhancement to the package, please create an [Issue](https://github.com/NEONScience/NEON-utilities-python/issues) in this repository, or contact us using the NEON [Contact Us](https://www.neonscience.org/about/contact-us) page.
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+The neonutilities package is currently not accepting external pull requests. If you have a suggestion for a fix or enhancement to the package, please create an [Issue](https://github.com/NEONScience/NEON-utilities-python/issues) in this repository, or contact us using the NEON [Contact Us](https://www.neonscience.org/about/contact-us) page.
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 neonutilities documentation
 ===========================
 
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+The neonutilities Python package provides utilities for discovering, downloading, 
+and working with data files published by the `National Ecological Observatory 
+Network (NEON) <https://www.neonscience.org/>`_. neonutilities provides functions 
+for downloading all types of NEON data (tabular, hierarchical, image) and for 
+joining tabular data files across dates and sites.
 
+To explore NEON data available for download and read data product documentation, 
+use the `Explore Data Products <https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/explore>`_ 
+page on the NEON Data Portal.
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2