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The FIA Annual Business Reports evaluate the performance of the FIA program to ensure accountability and transparency to FIA partners, supporters and customers. Modeled on a corporate business report, they contain basic business information about the FIA program including accomplishments, performance measures, plans for the next fiscal year, agreements with other parties, and basic financial and staffing data. These reports are prepared by the National Office staff of the FIA Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington, DC.See more information for fiscal years 2021 and ...

The vast majority of small watersheds in Northwest California lack stream gage information. Understanding the high flow behavior of these watersheds is crucial for guiding resource managers in project planning. The purpose of this thesis was to develop a predictive relationship between precipitation and peakflow of streams draining small forested watersheds of the Northern California Coast Range. An antecedent precipitation index approach was developed for this purpose.The five selected watersheds are covered by coastal coniferous forests with drainage areas ranging from 0.4 to 34 km2. Streamf...

The amount of forestry-related water quality monitoring in California has increased significantly in the past ten years. Factors leading to more monitoring include federal and state listing of fish species (i.e., coho salmon, Chinook salmon, steelhead trout) as threatened or endangered, listing of watersheds in northwestern California as sediment impaired under Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act, and new requirements by the State’s Regional Water Quality Control Boards for monitoring of Timber Harvesting Plans (THPs). As a result, several large private timberland owners are now moni...

COMPASS is published by the Science Delivery Group of the Southern Research Station (SRS), Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. As part of the Nation’s largest forestry research organization—Forest Service Research and Development—SRS serves 13 Southern States and beyond. The Station’s 130 scientists work at more than 20 units located across the region at Federal laboratories, universities, and experimental forests.

Map of the hiking trail system in Bent Creek Experimental Forest, Asheville, NC.For more information, visit the Bent Creek Experimental Forest website.

This RNA occurs along the crest of the southern Siskiyou Mountains in extreme western Siskiyou County. It lies approximately two air miles (3 km) east of the eastern boundary of the Siskiyou Wilderness. Rock Creek Butte (RCB) is a northeast-southwest trending ridge, which is now bisected by the Gasquet-Orleans Road.The RCB RNA has an exceptionally good representation of Brewer spruce on northwest-facing slopes. The Rock Creek Butte Brewer spruce stands are healthy, covering about 138 acres (55.9 ha) and are represented by several age classes ranging from seedlings up to trees 48 in. (122 cm) d...

The FIA Annual Business Reports evaluate the performance of the FIA program to ensure accountability and transparency to FIA partners, supporters and customers. Modeled on a corporate business report, they contain basic business information about the FIA program including accomplishments, performance measures, plans for the next fiscal year, agreements with other parties, and basic financial and staffing data. These reports are prepared by the National Office staff of the FIA Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington, DC.See more information for fiscal years 2021 and ...