The National Forest Health Monitoring Research Team (FHM) is the national research center for the U.S. Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring Program. The team's mission is to sustain and enhance forest ecosystems and the benefits they provide.

The FHM team produces National assessments of forest health status and trends and conducts research aimed at improving those assessments over time. FHM scientists specialize in statistics and modeling, forest biometrics, ecological assessment, and landscape ecology; their work is coordinated with other national and international research and assessment programs.

FHM Landscape Analysis and Assessment

National Forest Health Monitoring Program Monthly Updates

Forest Health Monitoring Research Team Staff

Bill Bechtold, Research Forester, FHM Team Leader

Kurt Riitters, Landscape Ecologist

William Smith, Biometrician

Kenneth Stolte, Research Ecologist

Valerie Cooper, Financial Assistant

North Carolina State University Cooperators:

Fred Cubbage, Professor

Barbara Conkling, Research Assistant Professor

Kevin Potter, Research Assistant Professor

Frank Koch, Research Assistant Professor

Mark Ambrose, Research Assistant


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