Forest Inventory and Analysis National Program

Regional Offices

FIA is organizationally located within the Research and Development Deputy Area of the U.S. Forest Service. FIA has three levels of internal management: an executive level involving senior executives from the Forest Service and State Forestry Agencies, who provide broad policy guidance; a management level consisting of field program managers from the Forest Service and States responsible for implementing the program on a day-to-day basis; and a technical level consisting of groups of technical specialists drawn from the Forest Service and States, who develop, document, and review program procedures.

Across the country, program work is coordinated out of four regional units. Each region maintains their own internal set of regional customers and partners who collaborate in program implementation.