Acronyms & Terms

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• Angler Days - sum totals of the time spent by people fishing on National Forest System land. Twenty four (24) hours of time spent fishing equals one (1) angler day.

B

• BLM - Bureau of Land Management

C

• CCS - Challenge Cost-Share

D

• DFC - Desired Future Condition. That is, the condition one wants the habitat to be in 5, 10, 20 years from now.

• DU - Ducks Unlimited

E

• ESA - Endangered Species Act

F

• FAEU - Fish & Aquatic Ecology Unit; a detached unit of the Watershed-Fish-Wildlife & Air staff, USDA FS

• FOIA - Freedom Of Information Act

• FS - Forest Service

• FWS - Fish and Wildlife Service
• FY - Fiscal Year

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I

• "In the Field" - Offices outside of Washington DC, especially Forests and Districts. Also known as "where the rubber hits the road", "where the work gets done", or "where the forests actually are".

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M

• MIS - Management Indicator Species
• MOU - Memorandum Of Understanding
• MOA - Memorandum Of Agreement

N

• NEPA - National Environmental Protection Act

• NFS - National Forest System
• NFWF - National Fish & Wildlife Foundation

• NRCS - Natural Resource Conservation Service

• NWTF - National Wild Turkey Federation

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P

Q

• QU - Quails Unlimited

R

S

T

• TES - Threatened & Endangered Species

• TU - Trout Unlimited

U

• USDA - United States Department of Agriculture

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W

• WEU - Wildlife Ecology Unit; a detached unit of the Watershed-Fish-Wildlife & Air staff, USDA FS
• WFRP - Wildlife, Fish & Rare Plants (former name of the WFW staff)
• WFW - Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Air and Rare Plants staff (also includes Soils, Weather)

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