Abstract:
The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program is a multi-agency,
cooperative effort to determine the status, changes,and trends in all
forest ecosystems in the United States on an annual basis. The
partners in the FHM program include the USDA Forest Service (State and
Private Forestry, Research, and the National Forest System), State
Foresters, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land
... Management,
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The FHM is designed to evaluate the condition, changes, and trends in
all U.S. forests on an annual basis; evaluate the causes of poor
forest condition; and evaluate key ecosystem components and processes
to better understand how forest ecosystems function. The FHM program
will help the United States and participating countries address forest
sustainability because the indicators used in FHM regional monitoring
are based on productivity, diversity, vitality, soil conservation, and
carbon sequestration.
FHM information includes:
- Sudden Oak Death
- Forest Inventory Analysis
- Lits of FHM regions
- Ozone indicator
- Lichen indicator
- Down woody materials indicator
Geographic Description:
United States forest ecosystems
Methodology Description:
There are four components: detection monitoring (national or
regional monitoring); evaluation monitoring (intensified monitoring or
analysis in problem areas); intensive site ecosystem monitoring
(monitoring to understand processes and improve predictive
capabilities); and research on monitoring techniques (research to
improve monitoring techniques). 
