Acronyms and Abbreviations

ALWRI - Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

FIDL - Forest Insect & Disease Leaflet

FPL - Forest Products Laboratory

FSL - Forestry Sciences Laboratory

IITF - International Institute of Tropical Forestry

INT - Formerly Intermountain Research Station, now part of Rocky Mountain Research Station.

GPO - United States Government Printing Office

GTR - General Technical Reports: information of a technical nature, but not an original report; computer programs, annotated bibliographies, and so forth. More information ...

NA - Northeastern Area (State & Private) 

NC - North Central Research Station 

NE - Northeastern Research Station

NIFC - National Interagency Fire Center

NTIS - National Technical Information Service

P - Proceedings: compilations of articles resulting from scientific or policymaking meetings. Information may be technical or essay in nature. More information ...

PNW - Pacific Northwest Research Station 

PSW - Pacific Southwest Station

R1 - Region 1, Northern Region

R2 - Region 2, Rocky Mountain Region

R3 - Region 3, Southwestern Region

R4 - Region 4, Intermountain Region

R5 - Region 5, Pacific Southwest Region

R6 - Region 6, Pacific Northwest Region

R8 - Region 8, Southern Region

R9 - Region 9, Eastern Region

R10 - Region 10, Alaska Region

RB - Resource Bulletins: resource inventory or economic information of permanent value on timber and other forest resources or their utilization. More information ...

RM - Formerly Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, now part of Rocky Mountain Research Station.

RMRS - Rocky Mountain Research Station

RN - Research Notes: observational information on new techniques or instruments, especially of how-to-do-it type or incidental discovery. More information ...

RP - Research Papers: results, analyses, and conclusions of formal studies or experiments. More information ...

RWU - Research Work Unit, where scientists are assigned and specific scientific missions are carried out.

SE - Formerly Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, now part of Southern Research Station.

SO - Formerly Southern Forest Experiment Station, now part of Southern Research Station.

SRS - Southern Research Station

WO - Washington Office, where the national Forest Service headquarters are located.