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 regenerationSoil Sampling Identifying Information2002-01-01Identifying information for all soil samples collected during the sampling year.Tracking collected samplesZ0161_2468_WKUZBCVMC.161.2468mySQLNatural 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) Soil Sampling Identifying Information. FEMC. Available online at: /femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/soil-sampling-identifying-information/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/soil-sampling-identifying-informationenuPurposePurposeSampling purposetextenuSampleTypeSample TypeSoil sample type (H = Horizon, D = Depth). Sampling was done either based off of horizon or depth.textfkPlotIDPlot IDNumerical ID given to each of the 100 plots within each site.intfkQuadrantIDQuadrant IDThe quadrant of the subdivided pit based on cardinal directions, NE, SE, SW, NW, NA.textfkSiteIDSite IDTwo letter IDs given to each of the 5 sites.textfldBagIDBag IDLabel given to each soil sample collected. The bag id uses the following format, SiteID-SampleYR-SampleID-Horizon/Depth. Sample year was recorded in increments of 5 on bag ids starting at year 0 in 2002. textfldCollectorCollectorInitials of crew members who collected the sampletextfldNRCSLabIDNRCS Lab IDNRCS Lab IDtextfldUSFSLabIDUSFS Lab IDUSFS Lab IDtextfldYearYearYear collecteddateYYYYpkSoilSampleIDSoil Sample IDSoil sample IDint