public read Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

705 Spear StreetSouth BurlingtonVermont05403United States of America

(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femcUnited 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 ForestspartnerTracking plot level visit information such as purpose, year, and specific quadrant visited.Forest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeJoshuaHalmancontentProviderCarlWaitecontentProviderSandraWilmotcontentProviderNancyBurtcontentProviderJamieShanleycontentProviderDeaneWangcontentProviderSeanLawsoncontentProviderThomasVillarsprincipalInvestigatorScottBaileyprincipalInvestigatorDonaldRossprincipalInvestigatorJamesDuncancontentProviderJenniferWrightcontentProviderAngelicaQuintanacontentProviderLong-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.Plot Visit InformationTracking plot level visit information such as purpose, year, and specific quadrant visited.VMC.161.2460mySQL/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/plot-visit-information2002-01-01enuPurposePurpose of VisitPurpose of the visit at the plot level ranging from regen, veg, to soil.textfkPlotIDPlot IDNumerical ID given to each of the 100 plots within each site.intfkQuadrantIDQuadrant IDThe quadrant of the subdivided pit, NE, SE, SW, NW, NA.textfkSiteIDSite IDTwo letter IDs given to each of the 5 sites.textfldCommentsCommentsAdditional commentstextfldCrewCrewInitials of all crew members involved with plot visittextfldEndDateEnd DateEnd DatedatetimeYYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ssfldStartDateStart DateStart DatedatetimeYYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ssfldYearYearVisit yeardateYYYY