Welcome to the USDA Forest Service
Planning Analysis Group (PAG) and
Inventory and Monitoring Institute (IMI) Website

PAG and IMI jointly comprise a National Service Center dedicated to providing assistance for the stewardship of forests and grasslands.

History Of The Nation's Forest Survey - View a draft of this publication.
(Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or higher recommended)

We provide services associated with the following topics:

• Spectrum
• Monitoring
• Information Collection
• Social Science Technical Guides
• Business Requirements
• Business Modeling
• Economics (also: IMPLAN/FEAST)
• Landscape Dynamics
• Collaboration

PAG/IMI facilities and site information.

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• IMI Quick Internet Links
• Estimating Standing Timber Values for SPECTRUM and Similar Land Management Planning Models (DRAFT)
• USDA-Forest Service's 1990 Critique of the First Round of Forest Planning conducted under the National Forest Management Act (NFMA) and the Forest and Rangeland Resources Planning Act (RPA)
• An Evaluation of LANDSCAPE DYNAMIC SIMULATION MODELS April 2003
• Joint Operating Agreements
• Check out the new Planning Rule
• LUCID - The Local Unit Criteria and Indicators website
• See what's happening with LUCID in Mexico
• FHM - Riparian Project
• IIM - Integrated Inventory and Monitoring website
• Plot-GEM - A web-based tool for exploring sampling alternatives