Inventory and Monitoring

The Inventory & Monitoring Program conducts and continuously updates a comprehensive inventory and analysis of present and prospective conditions of the forest and rangelands of the Interior West. Specific objectives of the Program are to:

• Collect and disseminate information about the forests of the Interior West States relating to forest distribution, condition, health and utilization;
• Develop innovative methods for sampling and integrating inventory data with remotely sensed information;
• Maintain a database of up-to-date statistics in order to provide resource information to the Forest Service, its cooperators, other public agencies, and the public at large; and
• Develop methods and procedures to test and evaluate indicators for assessing rangeland status and health.