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Enhanced Funding Strategies for Forest Resource Information

Explore the FIA's strategic plan for increased funding options under the Farm Bill to enhance forest resource information. Discover how the NRSFIA budget situation impacts research and development. Explore new organizational changes for improved efficiency.

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Enhanced Funding Strategies for Forest Resource Information

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  1. NRSFIA RMT 2015

  2. FIA Strategic Plan • Finally sent to Congress! • End of a 5 year effort! • Initial call for input 2010 • Decision to link to Farm Bill • Delayed awaiting Farm Bill passage • Various review drafts 2012, 2013, and 2014 • Delivered to Congress 2015

  3. FIA Strategic Plan Farm Bill Funding Options A: Status Quo B: Recovery and Add Interior AK C: Enhance and Expand the Core D: Speed and Unify the Cycle E: Enhance and Expand Partnerships F: Leveraged Partner Intensifications

  4. Any Farm Bill Related Funding Increases • Initiate Interior AK – the last hurdle • Re-allocate for increases in forest area • Inroads on Option C • Carbon • TPO • NWOS • Land use change • Urban

  5. FIA Budget Situation FY16 Looking FLAT

  6. R&D Budget Situation • Total R&D budget reductions • Rest of R&D especially hard hit • FIA increases coming out of Rest of R&D • From a Station perspective CR best option

  7. NRSFIA Budget Situation • Reduced budgets and increasing fixed costs • Operating costs being squeezed from both ends

  8. NRSFIA Budget Situation Details • Fixed costs up • Fed staffing down • Outsourced staffing fluctuates with Operating

  9. NRSFIA Budget Situation Outlook • Given: • Operating budgets within the Unit • Zero-sum funding game within R&D • Current flat funding for FY16 • Immediate focus of any new Farm Bill funding • Then for the immediate future: • Relatively flat funding • Status quo delivery • Building capacity and delivery as funding allows

  10. Organizational Changes NRS-05Natural Resources I & M TPO NWOS ITREE NGHGI NIMAC FIA New!

  11. Reporting Reducing Pub Costs • Standard templates • < layout $$$ • Printing costs • Page limits • Copy limits • Fewer Pubs • Sub-regional reports • Southern New England • Plains States • NH/VT • Push to Digital • Business Analytics • ESRI Story Maps • Minimize Hardcopy

  12. Reporting Less paper; More technology • http://forest-atlas.fs.fed.us • https://public.tableau.com/views/NRS-FIAAnnualReport/Story1?%3AshowVizHome=no#1 • https://public.tableausoftware.com/views/eab_story/eab_story?:showVizHome=no#1 • https://public.tableausoftware.com/views/InvasivePlantSpecies-revised/Invasive?:showVizHome=no#1 • http://www.texasforestinfo.com/ • http://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/Vid_UrbanForests.html • Smart websites/tools/apps Interpretive Interactive Topical Spatial Visual Graphical Contextual Temporal Dynamic

  13. Reporting Partneringfor Core Reporting • States take on leader author role • States know issues best (relevancy) • Build internal FIA expertise • Feds provide support role • Oversight • Coaching/Training/Data access • Coauthor Orchestration • Station QA protocols • Publication templates/procedures • $$$ • Being tested in WI • Feds focus more on • Special issues • x-state issues • Regional issues • Regional/national product line specialists

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