Forest and rangelands provide significant commodity and
noncommodity values for the citizens of the United States. Playing an important and
substantial role in ensuring the continued health, productivity, and sustainability of
these resources is a reliable and credible inventory and monitoring program. The
Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service has been
monitoring the nation’s forests for 70 years, and the Forest Health Monitoring
(FHM) program has been operating for the last 10 years. Recent efforts by the White
House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) to integrate
inventory and monitoring networks in conjunction with the need to deliver Montreal
Process Criteria and Indicators data are reshaping how FIA and FHM will operate in
the future. These programs are expected to supply scientifically sound, critical base
data for as many as 18 of the 28 biological indicators to monitor and report on U.S.
forest sustainability.
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