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A Vision for FIA Over the Next Five Years Greg Reams FIA Program Leader

A Vision for FIA Over the Next Five Years Greg Reams FIA Program Leader USDA Forest Service. LAST 20 YEARS. 1992 Blue Ribbon Panel 1 1996 Le Pavillon FIA Annual Survey 1997 Blue Ribbon Panel 2 No progress, U.S. forests are important Annual system begins

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A Vision for FIA Over the Next Five Years Greg Reams FIA Program Leader

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  1. A Vision for FIA Over the Next Five Years Greg Reams FIA Program Leader USDA Forest Service

  2. LAST 20 YEARS • 1992 Blue Ribbon Panel 1 • 1996 Le Pavillon FIA Annual Survey • 1997 Blue Ribbon Panel 2 • No progress, U.S. forests are important • Annual system begins • Buy-in for national program • Progress begins in earnest with 1998 Farm Bill

  3. WHAT DID WE SAY WE’D DO? • Work with partners in defining direction and implementation (States, NFS, Tribes, NGOs, NOAA/NASA/USGS…….) • Be national, all states, all ownerships • Inclusive of FHM & Forest Health Issues • Support Sustainability Criteria & Indicators • Develop a national core of attributes & reports • With regional flexibility • Support user needs including spatial products

  4. In addition to field sampling, we survey private landowners, and… Source: Nelson and Liknes 2007.

  5. ownership,

  6. we canvass all primary wood-using mills, Source: Smith et al. 2008.

  7. and provide the official forest carbon estimates to the IPCC. Source: 2010 Sustainability Report

  8. planted forests,

  9. Spatially monitoring invasive plants is critical to forest health mitigation strategies Sampling of selected high-priority invasive species to meet local management and information needs. cheat grass Scotch broom

  10. FIA and Forest Management • Conserve • Forest legacy, EQIP, Private Forest Lands Research, Wildlife Hab. Incentives, etc… • Protect • Forest health protection, fire, forest restoration, etc…. • Enhance • CRP, Biomass crop assist, biofuels,etc…

  11. Testimonies on FIA Impacts to Management • Science-based foundation for better management of land (Texas FS) • Used to create fire prevention and protection strategies (CA) • Impacts of mountain pine beetle (CO) • Critical to monitoring carbon content and future carbon management strategies (WI)

  12. WHAT WE NEED TO DO...You Said • Complete the Base • Don’t Lose the Base • Maintain Flexibility & Core Variable • Ramp up small area estimation and spatial products including mapping • Find new money to implement urban work • Annualize TPO and make available like FIADB • Dr. CLUTTER ………….Don’t change the design!!!!

  13. Yes, And Some Additional Possibilities • We have completed the base with exception of Interior Alaska • We are working with partners on URBAN through the Vibrant Cities initiative (Read New Money… Not FIA’s!!!) • Enhance Social & Economics Integration • Landowner, Product Markets, Ecosystem Service Markets • Invasive Species….ties directly to urban work • Weather and Climate Impacts • Efficiencies FS wide on Inventory, Monitoring and Assessment

  14. ENHANCE PARTNER OUTREACH • Maintain and enhance current partnerships • States and NFS as key partners • Continue to build partnerships • Tribes • Vibrant Cities • Water Districts • Agencies and entities with similar missions • Federal, States, Muni and International contributions to forest I&M

  15. Next Big Things • Making Spatial Products and Tools more dynamic, and useful by hosting outside FS firewall • Land Management Information needs in dynamic environment • Shifts in land cover and use classes • Attributing by probable influences • Weather and climate, population growth, ag markets, fire/weather interactions, etc…

  16. THANK YOU • QUESTIONS ???????????????????????

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