Understory

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 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 ...

All scientific research discoveries, to paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton, are built on the shoulders of the people who came before. Individual researchers create small building blocks; a few blocks are unusual enough to attract attention in their own right, but most are destined simply to be part of a grander edifice somewhere down the road.The forest sciences in particular yield few monumental discoveries; solo performances are rare. And yet the continuous delving by curious minds into our forest and range resources has brought forth a multitude of usable building blocks. When pieced together thou...

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 ...

Finney, M. A. 2000. Efforts at comparing simulated and observed fire growth patterns. Missoula, MT: Systems for Environmental Management; Final Report INT-95066-RJVA. (71 KB; 20 pages)

Sustaining healthy community forests will be important to quality of life as many Coastal Southern California communities continue to grow during the next decade. The role of urban forests to enhance the environment, increase community attractiveness, and foster civic pride will take on greater significance as communities strive to balance economic growth with environmental quality and social well-being.Coastal Southern California communities can promote energy efficiency through tree planting and stewardship programs that strategically locate trees to shade buildings, cool urban heat islands,...

Habitat inventories conducted by the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) of the west end streams in Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JSDF) have repeatedly revealed them to possess a high percentage of canopy cover and generally well-vegetated stream banks. However, their pools are often shallow and there is generally very little large woody debris (LWD) in the channel. It is believed that the addition of large woody material to stream channels could produce higher habitat quality in these streams for anadromous fish. Enhanced juvenile rearing and over-winter holding areas should im...

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 ...

Finney, M. A.; Andrews, P. L. 1999. FARSITE: Fire Area Simulator—a program for fire growth simulation. Fire Management Notes 59(2): 13-15. (71 KB; 3 pages)