North American Test of Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forestry

Appendix C.

List of Acronyms

AAC - Annual Allowable Cut
AF&PA - American Forest and Paper Association
AIDS - acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AMS - Analysis of the Management Situation
ASQ - allowable sale quantity
ATO - African Timber Organization
BLM - Bureau of Land Management
BMP - best management practice
BNF - Boise National Forest
BSU - Boise State University
C&I - Criteria and Indicators
CCFM - Canadian Council of Forest Ministers
CDC - Conservation Data Centers
CFI - Continuous forest inventory
CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research
CIFOR-BAG - Center for International Forestry Research - Basic Assessment Guide for Human Well-being
CMT - culturally modified tree
COSEWIC - Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
CSA - Canadian Standards Association
CWD - Coarse Woody Debris
DBH - diameter at breast height
DDB - Deskundigenwerkgroep Duurzaam Bosbeheer
DFC - desired future condition
EA - environmental assessment
EIS - Environmental Impact Statement
ELC - Ecological Land Classification
FACA - Federal Advisory Committee Act
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization
FHAP - Fish Habitat Assessment Program
FIA - Forest inventory and analysis
FMU - Forest Management Unit
FS - Forest Service
FSC - Forest Stewardship Council
GFE - Greater Fundy Ecosystem
GIS - Geographic Information System
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GNP - Gross National Product
HRV - historic range of variability
IBI - Index of Biotic Integrity
ICBEMP - Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
ICM - Iterative Continuum Method
IDL - Idaho Department of Lands
IFOA - Idaho Forest Owners Association
ILO - International Labor Organization
IMSS - Instituto Mexicano Del Seguro Social
INFISH - Interim Inland Native Fish Strategy for the Intermountain, Northern and Pacific Northwest regions (Forest Service)
IPF - Intergovernmental Panel on Forests
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ISSSTE - Instituto de Servicios Y Seguridad Social Para Los Trabajadores del Estado
ITTO - International Tropical Timber Organization
ITW - Initiative Tropenwald
IUCN - World Conservation Union
LEI - Lembaga Ekolabel Indonesia
LRMP - Land and Resource Management Plan
LTSY - Long-term sustained yield
MAI - mean annual increment
NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act
NF - National Forest
NFMA - National Forest Management Act
NGOs - Non-government organizations
NIPF - non-industrial private forest
NTFP - non-timber forest products
OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Act
OTA - Office of Technology Assessment
PAOT - people at one time
PACFISH - interim strategy for restoring and protecting habitat for anadromous fisheries in watersheds under federal ownership in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and northern California
PFE - Permanent forest estate
REIS - United States Department of Commerce's Regional Economic Information System
RIM - recreation information system
RHCA - Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas
RMSTAND - Rocky Mountain Stand resource information system (computer program)
RVD - recreation visitor days
SIAR - Security of Intergenerational Access to Resources
SIC - Standard Industrial Classification
STD - sexually transmitted disease
TEK - traditional ecological knowledge
TUS - Traditional use study
UCRB - Upper Columbia River Basin
UNCED - United Nationals Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
US - United States
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USFS - United States Forest Service
WCB - Workers Compensation Board
WCED - World Commission on Environment and Development
WCMC - World Conservation Monitoring Centre