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 regenerationVermont Long-term Soil Monitoring Database2002-01-012017-09-01A database of all data collected as part of the Vermont Long-term Soils Monitoring program, including visit information, vegetation, soil descriptions and soil chemistry. 20210702155621_VermontLTSM_2002-2017_20210702.accdbVMC.161.3718mySQLRoss, D.S., Bailey, S.W., Villars, T.R., Quintana, A., Wilmot, S.W., Halman, J. M., Shanley, J.B. and J.A. Duncan. 2021. Vermont Long-term Soil Monitoring Database. Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative. Available online at https://www.doi.org/10.18125/58h5df/femc/data/archive/project/long-term-soil-monitoring/dataset/vermont-long-term-soil-monitoring-database