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Forest Vegetation Simulator Documents

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Documentation (a variety of bulletins, users guides, manuals, and technical reports)

  • User Guides
    User guides for the whole suite of FVS software. This includes the variant overviews.

  • Newsletters
    The FVS Newsletter provides updates, fixes, proposed changes, and/or topics of concern with FVS software.

  • Insect and Pathogen Models
    Extensions and Keyword Component Files to incorporate forest pest disturbances into FVS projections.

  • Project Planning
    Helpful tools for large scale FVS projects.

  • Archived Model Documents
    Older user guides available through Treesearch. This includes the original Prognosis guides.

Related

  • Forest Vegetation Simulator Conferences - includes proceedings and recordings of past FVS conferences.

  • FVS Variant Map (ZIP, 19.5 MB) - GIS shapefile for a map of suggested FVS variants and location codes for the conterminous United States and Alaska.

  • Ecological Subsection Codes (ZIP, 30.7 MB) - GIS shapefile of ecological subsection codes for the conterminous United States and Alaska from Cleland et al. 2007 and Nowacki and Brock 1995.