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For more than 90 years, the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program has played an integral role in providing the information vital to the management and conservation of the Nation’s Forest resources. In recent years, an increased number of major decisions regarding the Nation’s forests have been made with reference to and reliance on FIA findings and forest resource evaluations. Today, FIA data is the authoritative source to inform carbon measuring, monitoring, reporting, and verifying (MMRV), as well as to support the sustainable management and conservation of forests, water resources, bi...

This is a collaborative research and outreach project created by the US Forest Service (Northern Research Station) ten years ago to better understand and support stewardship. It has been applied in a number of places internationally.