Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femc705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of AmericaUnited States Geological Survey (USGS) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation ServiceForest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) University of Vermont College of Agriculture and Life SciencesUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National ForestspartnerVermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring ProgramLong-term monitoring of forest soils is necessary to understand the effects of continued environmental change, including climate change, atmospheric deposition of metals, and recovery from acidic precipitation. A monitoring program was initiated in 2002 at five protected forest sites in Vermont, three in Mt. Mansfield State Forest and two in the Lye Brook Wilderness Area. Every 5 years at each site, ten soil pits are dug and sampled from subplots in a 50 × 50-m plot.Vermont Long-Term Soil Monitoring ProgramHalmanJoshuaWaiteCarlWilmotSandraBurtNancyShanleyJamieWangDeaneLawsonSeanVillarsThomasBaileyScottRossDonaldDuncanJamesWrightJenniferQuintanaAngelicahuman disturbancelong term monitoringsoilcontinuous forest inventory vermont forestsforest regenerationRegeneration2007-01-01Count of all seedling and saplings tree species that were under 2 inches in DBH. Counts were done on each of the 10 sampling plots at each site. A 5 m^2 PVC square was placed on the perimeter of each plot and all seedlings whose stems originated in the square were counted. Seedlings were only counted if they had true leaves (More than just cotyledons).Estimate regeneration rates.Z0161_2461_1KK8W6VMC.161.2461mySQLNatural Resources Conservation Service, Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, University of Vermont, USDA Forest Service, Green Mountain National Forest and Northern Research Station, and US Geological Survey. (2018) Regeneration. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/regenerationhttps://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/regenerationAshAshBalsamFirBalsamFirintBeechBeechintenuPurposePurpose of VisitPurpose of the visit at the plot level.textfkPlotIDPlot IDNumerical ID given to each plot within each site. There are 100 plots per site.intfkSiteIDSite IDTwo letter IDs given to each of the 5 sites.textfldYearfldYearVisit yeardateYYYYMountainAshMountainAshintMountainBirchMountainBirchintMountainMapleMountainMapleintRedMapleRedMapleintRedSpruceRedSpruceintStripedMapleStripedMapleintSeedlingSaplingCountTotalSeedling Sapling Total CountTotal count of seedlings/saplingsdecimal0.1SugarMapleSugarMapleintUnknownMapleUnknownMapleintWhitePineWhitePineYellowBirchYellowBirchint