Understory

This manual documents data collection procedures, codes, standards, and definitions used by the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis (PNW-FIA) program in the 2022 annual forest inventory of Alaska.

This manual documents data collection procedures, codes, standards, and definitions used by the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis (PNW-FIA) program in the 2022 annual forest inventory of California, Oregon, and Washington.

This manual describes the standards, codes, methods, and definitions for Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) field data items used for urban FIA inventories of San Diego, CA and Portland, OR by the PNW-FIA unit in 2022.

Scientists from State, Federal, private, and tribal entities developed two predictive models – nutrition and habitat use - tailored for management application on elk (Cervus canadensis) summer range inwestern Oregon and western Washington. The models provide managers with user-friendly tools to evaluate nutritional and habitat conditions for elk at landscape scales commensurate with all-lands management. Model users can not only quantify current nutritional conditions and predicted habitat use by elk in summer, but also evaluate effects of proposed management actions, such as thinning or road ...

This user guide offers step-by-step instructions for how to use the Phenomap tool, as well as documentation for the layers and information used to make the tool.

The 1980s were the era of the “elk wars.” Tensions ran high as cattle (Bos taurus) producers in eastern Oregon pointed fingers at elk (Cervus canadensis) herds decimating crops and haystacks on private lands and competing for limited summer forage on public grazing allotments. Meanwhile, wildlife enthusiasts and game managers decried the cattle taking grasses that could have fed elk. Soon the wars dissolved into occasional skirmishes. A big part of the solution was the birth in 1985 of a long-term research program designed to inform integrated management of deer (Odocoileus spp.), elk and catt...

The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) initiated the Fire and Smoke Model Experiment (FASMEE) (https://www.fasmee.net) by funding JFSP Project 15-S-01-01. This nationwide, multiagency effort identifies and collects critical measurements that will be used to advance fire and smoke science and modeling capabilities, allowing managers to 1) increase the use of managed fire, 2) improve firefighting strategies, 3) enhance smoke forecasts, 4) better assess carbon stores and fire-climate interactions and improve our understanding ...

This manual documents data collection procedures, codes, standards, and definitions used by the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis (PNW-FIA) program in the 2021 annual forest inventory of Alaska.

This field guide supplemental describes the data items to record for Fire Effects and Recovery Study (FERS) plots; it is a supplement to the 2021 Field Instructions for the Annual Inventory of California, Oregon, and Washington.

This manual documents data collection procedures, codes, standards, and definitions used by the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis (PNW-FIA) program in the 2021 annual forest inventory of California, Oregon, and Washington.