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The Vermont Monitoring Cooperative (VMC) is a collaborative organization in which scientists collect and pool information and data for the purpose of improving our understanding, protection, and management of Vermont's forested ecosystems. Participating cooperators from government, academic and private sectors, conduct research projects on a variety of topics including forest health, air quality and meteorology, wildlife, aquatic systems and others. The VMC helps make the data and results from these projects available to other scientists, educators, resource managers and the general public. The Vermont Monitoring VMC was initiated in 1990 as a state, university, and federal partnership.
The centerpiece of the VMC is the data library and card catalogue system that allow data to be shared, archived, and accessed by scientists and other interested parties. It contains the data and ancillary textual material from over 100 projects, and is linked in time and space.

The VMC is administered jointly the Agency of Natural Resources, the University of Vermont and the US Forest Service.

VMC Mission Statement:
The VMC (the University of Vermont, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, the Green Mountain National Forest, and other Cooperators) facilitates the collection of environmental data, and provides to Vermonters and others the information needed to understand, protect, and manage forested ecosystems within a changing global environment.