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 regenerationSite Identifying Information2002-01-01Within the long-term soil monitoring network, there are 5 permanent sites. Three sites were established within the boundaries of Mount. Mansfield within northern Vermont and two were established within the boundaries of the Lye Brook Wilderness Area in southern Vermont.Tracking site-specific information Z0161_2464_H8QPS2VMC.161.2464mySQLNatural 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) Site Identifying Information. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/site-identifying-informationhttps://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/site-identifying-informationfldAspectAspectAspectint0.10360fldForestTypeForest Typea brief description of the forest type within each site.textfldLatitudeLatitudeLatitude of the center of the sitedecimal0.0000001fldLocationNameLocation NameTwo letter ID indicating whether a site was within the Mt. Mansfield network (MT) or Lye Brook (LB).textfldLongitudeLongitudeLongitude of the center of the sitedecimal0.0000001fldSiteDescriptionSite DescriptionSite descriptiontextfldSiteNameSite NameSite NametextfldSlopeSlopeSlope of the sitedecimal0.001fldStandAgeStand AgeEstimated stand age as of 2000intpkSiteIDSite IDSite IDtext