Long-term datasets of sufficient length at spatial scales are invaluable toward addressing water resource planning issues, such as watershed nutrient or sediment loadings, the effectiveness of land management practices, to estimate loading from unmonitored areas, and long-term trends. Synoptic data collection informs about a location for current land use or climate conditions at one point in time; long-term collection informs about a place accounting for varying land use or climate conditions over an extended period … even decades.
