University of Vermont Extension Research Reports
1. Measuring Ecosystem Services from Soil Health (Alissa White, Heather Darby, Benjamin Dube, Bryony Sands, Joshua Faulkner, Meredith Albers and Maggie Payne)
2. Field Scale Soil Health Scenarios (Alissa White, Heather Darby, Lindsey Ruhl, Bryony Sands, Sarah Ziegler, Juan Alvez and Sara Brickman)
3. Results of the 2022 Vermont Farmer Conservation & Payment for Ecosystem Services Survey (Alissa White)
3c. Farmer Perspectives on Administrative Burdens & Potential Compensation Structures (Ellen Friedrich, Nour El-Naboulsi, Alissa White and Heather Darby)
4b. Economic Cost of Scenarios 1-3 (Jon Winsten)
4c. Economic Cost of Scenarios 4a-c (Jon Winsten)
5. Valuation of Soil Health Services (Benjamin Dube, Alissa White, Heather Darby and Taylor Ricketts)
6a. Review of PES Programs (Christopher Bonasia, Lindsey Ruhl and Nour El-Naboulsi)
6b. Farmer PES Program Proposals (Christopher Bonasia, Guy Choiniere, Scott Magnan and Stephen Leslie)
7. Whole Farm Net Zero: Approaches to quantification of ecosystem services at the whole farm scale (Christopher Bonasia, Lindsey Ruhl, Benjamin Dube, Alissa White and Heather Darby)
8. Creating a PES Program Focused on Soil Health in Vermont: Program Design Issues and Recommendations (Jon Winsten)
PES Working Group Reports to Legislature
Soil Conservation Practice and Payment for Ecosystem Services Working Group Report (January 15, 2020)
Payment for Ecosystem Services and Soil Health Final Report (January 15, 2023)