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(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femcLake Champlain Sea Grant leadRaise the Blade methods, sampling equipment, and description of field names. Forest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeJuliannaWhitecontentProviderKristineStepenuckprincipalInvestigatorThe Lake Champlain Sea Grant (LCSG) develops and shares science-based knowledge to benefit the environment and economies of the Lake Champlain basin. In 2017, Lake Champlain Sea Grant partnered with 10 Burlington-area businesses and organizations to establish "Raise the Blade" research demonstration sites. The research assessed if differences in soil and grass health exist between lawns cut to 2 inches (what most people in the Lake Champlain basin do) and lawns cut to 3 inches with clippings allowed to decompose (recommended best practices). Initially, an undergraduate fellow, supported by the Simon Family Foundation, established the paired study plots, and began managing them according to standard and recommended practices. After that summer, Lake Champlain Sea Grant hired other undergraduate student interns to manage the study plots and to monitor soil and lawn health over time. LCSG had anticipated running the study until 2027, as it was hypothesized that any changes in soil organic matter and compaction may take many years to occur. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 resulted in inability to maintain the study sites and the project became inactive.Raise the Blade MetadataRaise the Blade methods, sampling equipment, and description of field names. VMC.1727.3794mySQL/femc/data/archive/project/raise-the-blade-/dataset/raise-blade-metadata2017-06-29Additional_InformationAdditional_InformationNo description for this attributetextMethodsMethodsNo description for this attributetextSee_file:_Methods_2019_docxSee_file:_Methods_2019_docxNo description for this attributetext