FOREST ACRONYMS
Acronyms You'll Hear or Read
Forest Acronyms
At Georgia ForestWatch (GFW) meetings you might hear something like this: "NEPA is the only tool we have to fight this CE. We should at least ask that they do a full EA." Whaaaa?? Was that English? Here's the magic list of translations. Decoder Ring sold separately. Test at 11:00.
A B C D E F G H I-K L
M N O P-Q R S T U V W-Z
A
- AA - Analysis Area
- ACP – Agriculture Conservation Program
- AD - Administratively Determined
- ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
- AMSL – Above Mean Sea Level
- AMS - Analysis of Management Situation
- APA - Administrative Procedure Act
- APHIS - Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service
- AQRV – Air Quality Related Value
- ASQ - Allowable Sale Quantity
- AT - Appalachian Trail
- ATSA – Automated Timber Sale Accounting
- ATV – All-Terrain Vehicle
- AUM - Animal Unit Month
- AW - American Whitewater
B
- BA - Basal Area
- BCHGA - Back Country Horsemen of GA
- BE – Biological Evaluation
- BF – Board Foot
- BIO - Biological Oxygen Demand
- BMP - Best Management Practice
- BMT - Benton MacKaye Trail
- BSS – Base Sale Schedule
C
- CAA - Clean Air Act (Federal) Division
- CCF – Hundred Cubic Feet
- CE - Categorical Exclusion
- CEQ - Council on Environmental Quality
- CF – Cubic Foot
- CFL - Commercial Forest Land
- CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
- CFS – Cubic Feet per Second
- CIP - Capital Investment Program
- CISC - Continuous Inventory of Stand Conditions
- CMAI – Culmination of Mean Annual Increment
- CMCM – Capital Improvement & Maintenance
- CO – Carbon Monoxide
- CONF – Chattahoochee and Oconee National Forests
- CUA - Concentrated Use Area
- CVHW - Cove Hardwood
- CWA - Clean Water Act
- CWD - Coarse Woody Debris
D
- DBH - Diameter at Breast Height
- DEIS – Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- DEM - Digital Elevation Model
- DFC - Desired Future Condition
- DL – District Leader
- DM – Decision Memo
- DN – Decision Notice
- DNR – Georgia Department of Natural Resources
E
- EA - Environmental Assessment
- EBLI - Estimated Budget Line Item
- ECS – Ecological Classification System
- ECOMAP - Ecological Classification & Mapping Task Team
- ED - Executive Director
- EIS – Environmental Impact Statement
- EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
- EPD – Environmental Protection Division (state)
- ESA – Endangered Species Act
- ESH – Early Successional Habitat
- EWPP – Emergency Watershed Protection Plan
F
- FCRM - Forest land & Resource Management
- FDR - Forest Development Road
- FEIS – Final Environmental Impact Statement
- FH - Forest Highway
- FIA - Forest Inventory & Analysis
- FMAP – Fire Management Action Plan
- FOIA - Freedom of Information Act
- FOM - Friends of Mountaintown
- FONSI - Finding of No Significant Impact
- FLN - Fire Learning Network
- FR - Forest Road
- FRP – Forest Road Program
- FS - USDA Forest Service
- FSH - Forest Service Handbook
- FSM – Forest Service Manual
- FVS – Forest Vegetation Simulator
- FTE - Full-Time Employee/Full Time Equivalent
- FWRBE - (Team) – Fish, Wildlife, Range, Botany & Ecology
- FY - Fiscal Year
G
- GAO - Government Accounting Office
- GATC - Georgia Appalachian Trail Club
- GDP – Gross Domestic Product
- GE - Genetically Engineered
- GEAN - Georgia Environmental Action Network
- GEPD – Georgia Environmental Protection Division
- GFA - General Forest Area
- GFW - Georgia ForestWatch
- GIS - Geographic Information System
- GM - Genetically Modified
- GMT - Georgia Mountain Treasures
- GPTA - Georgia Pinhoti Trail Association
- GRN - Georgia River Network
H
- HA - Hectare
- HE-ESH - High Elevation - Early Successional Habitat
- HMA – Habitat Management Area
- HU - Hydrologic Units
- HUC – Hydrologic Unit Codes
- HRP – Human Resource Program
- HWA – Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
I-K
- IDT - Interdisciplinary Team
- IMBA – International Mountain Bicycling Association
- IPM - Integrated Pest Management
- IS - Interpretive Services
- IRA – Inventoried Roadless Area
- IRTC – Integrated Resource Contracts
- KCFAST – Kansas City Fire Access Software
- K-V – Knutson-Vandenberg Act
L
- LAC - Limits of Acceptable Change
- LAR – Land Area Report
- LEO - Law Enforcement Officer
- LOAP - Landownership Adjustment Plan
- LOI – Letter Of Intent
- LP - Linear Programming
- LRMP - Land & Resource Management Plan
- LSA - Large Scale Assessment
- LTA – Land Type Association
- LTP - Land Type Phase
- LTSYC - Long-Term Sustained-Yield Capacity
- LUG – Land-Use Group
- LWD – Large Woody Debris
- L&WCF - Land & Water Conservation Fund
M
- M - Thousand
- MA – Management Area
- MAR - Management Attainment Report
- MAUM - Thousand Animal Unit Month
- MBF – Thousand Board Feet
- MCF - Thousand Cubic Feet
- MIL - Management Intensity Level
- MIS – Management Indicator Species
- ML – Maintenance Level
- MM - Million
- MMBF - Million Board Feet
- MMCF - Million Cubic Feet
- MMR – Minimum Management Requirement
- MMRVD – Million Recreation Visitor-Days
- M$ - Thousands of Dollars
- MM$ - Millions of Dollars
- MOU - Memorandum of Understanding
- MRVD - Thousand Recreation Visitor-Days
- MVUM - Motor Vehicle Use Map
- MWFUD - Thousand Wildlife & Fish User-Day
- M&E - Monitoring & Evaluation
N
- N - Nitrogen
- NAAQS – National Ambient Air Quality Standards
- NAPAP - National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
- NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act
- NF – National Forest
- NFTSM – National Forest Timber Sales Management
- NFMA - National Forest Management Act
- NFS - National Forest System
- NFSR – National Forest System Road
- NFRS - National Forest Recreation Survey
- NLFCA - National Listing of Fish Consumption Advisories
- NGO - Non-Governmental Organization
- NOI – Notice of Intent
- NOX – Nitrogen Oxides
- NO3 – The Anion Nitrate
- NNIS – Non-Native Invasive Species
- NPDES – National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
- NPL - National Priorities List
- NPS - National Park Service
- NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service
- NRA - National Rifle Association
- NRI - Natural Resource Inventory
- NSO - No Surface Occupancy (Mineral Stipulation)
- NTMB - Neotropical Migratory Birds
- NVUM - National Visitor Use Monitoring
- NWGASORBA - Northwest Georgia SORBA
- NWPS - National Wilderness Preservation System
- NWTF - National Wildlife Turkey Federation
O
- OGTY - Old Growth Community Type
- OHV - Off-Highway Vehicle
- OMP – Operation Maintenance & Protection
- ORV - Off-Road Vehicle
- OUDS - Overnight Use Developed Sites
P-Q
- PA - Programmatic Agreement
- PAOT - Persons-At-One-Time Recreation Plan
- PCT - Pre-commercial Thinning
- PETS – Proposed, Endangered, Threatened, or Sensitive (Species)
- PILT - Payment In Lieu Of Taxes
- PL - Public Law
- PM – Particulate Matter
- PNV - Present Net Value
- PNW - Present Net Worth
- PNWR – Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge
- PRODCL - Productivity Class
- PSD - Prevention of Significant Deterioration
- PSI – Pounds Per Square Inch
R
- R8 - USDA Forest Service, Region 8
- RACs – Resource Advisory Committees
- RACR – Roadless Area Conservation Rule
- RAP – Roads Analysis Process
- RARE - Roadless Area Review & Evaluation
- RARE II - The Second Roadless Area Review & Evaluation
- RBP – Rapid Bio-Assessment Protocol
- RCW - Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
- RCW-EIS - Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Environmental Impact Statement
- RD – Ranger District
- RIM - Recreation Information Management
- RMO - Road Management Objectives
- RNA – Research Natural Area
- RN1 – Roaded Natural 1 Preservation System
- RN2 - Roaded Natural 2 Preservation System
- ROD - Record of Decision
- ROS - Recreation Opportunity Spectrum
- ROW - Right-Of-Way
- RPA - Resources Planning Act
- RVD - Recreation Visitor-Day
- R&E - Review & Evaluation
S
- S - Sulfur
- SAA – Southern Appalachian Assessment
- SAFC – Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
- SARRWAG - Southern Appalachian Recreation, Rivers, Wilderness Advisory Group
- SC - Sierra Club
- SCORP - State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan
- SELC - Southern Environmental Law Center
- SH – State Highway
- SIO - Scenic Integrity Objective
- SIP - State Implementation Plan
- SMS – Scenery Management System
- SMZ - Streamside Management Zone
- SORBA - Southeast Off-Road Bicycle Association
- SOX – Sulfur Oxides
- SO4 – The Anion Sulfate
- SPA - Supplemental Project Agreement SPB - Southern Pine Beetle
- SPBH - Southern Appalachian Backcountry Horsemen
- SPMO - Semi-Primitive Motorized
- SPNM - Semi-Primitive Non-Motorized
- STARS - Sales Tracking & Reporting System
- SUDS - Special Uses Data System
- SUP - Special Use Permit
- S&G - Standard & Guideline
T
- TAP - Travel Analysis Process
- TCF - The Conservation Fund
- TES - Threatened & Endangered Species
- TMDL - Total Maximum Daily Load
- TNC – The Nature Conservancy
- TPL – Trust for Public Land
- TSPIRS - Timber Sale Program Information Reporting System
- TTRS - Tall Timbers Research Station
- TSI - Timber Stand Improvement
- TU - Trout Unlimited
- TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority
- T&E - Threatened & Endangered
U
- UCR - Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
- UERA - Upper Etowah River Alliance
- UPLD - Upland Hardwood/Mixed
- USC – United States Code
- USDA - U.S. Department Of Agriculture
- USDI - U.S. Department Of Interior
- USFWS - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- USGS - U.S. Geological Survey
- UV - Ultraviolet
V
- VIS - Visitor Information Services
- VMS – Visual Management System
- VOCS - Volatile Organic Compounds
- VQO - Visual Quality Objective
W-Z
- WCR - Watershed Condition Rank
- WHI – Wildlife Habitat Improvement
- WIN - Watershed Improvement Inventory
- WMA - Wildlife Management Area
- WO - Washington Office
- WPIN - White Pine
- WRD - Wildlife Resources Division
- WRP - Wetlands Reserve Program
- WSA - Wilderness Study Area
- WSMA - Watershed Management Area
- WUI - Wildland-Urban Interface zones
- WURR - Water Use Rights & Requirements
- YPIN - Yellow Pine
