PFC Glossary.xlsx

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1	ACNRC	Adams County Natural Resource Council, Ron Hamilton is PFC Representative
2	ACS	Aquatic Conservation Strategy
3	ACSCD	Adams County Soil Conservation District, Wendy Green is PFC Representative
4	ALTA	Area Logging and Transportation analysis
5	AMP	Allotment Management Plan
6	AOI	Annual Operating Instructions
7	AOP	Aquatic Organism Passage
8	ATV	All Terrain Vehicle
9	BA	Biological Assessment
10	BAER	Burned Area Eme Rehabilitation
11	BE	Biological Evaluation
12	BLM	Bureau of Land Management
13	BMP	Best Management Practice
14	BO	Biological Opinion
15	CARA	Comment Analysis Response Application: an emNEPA tool found within the GovDelivery (electronic messaging program) which will be the Forest Service's new way of collecting public comments during scoping, public review, and objection periods of FS projects. Comment letters will be posted in the public reading room and accessible from that project's website. From a project webpage, comments can be submitted using the web form by selecting "Comment on Project" under "Get Connected" on the right panel of the project website. The GovDelivery email system will be used to inform "subscribed individuals" when a project is open for comment.
16	CBD	Condition Based Decisions
17	CC	Canopy Closure
18	CE	Categorical exclusions: actions which meet the definition contained in 40 CFR 1508.4, and, based on past experience with similar actions, do not involve significant environmental impacts. They are actions which: do not induce significant impacts to planned growth or land use for the area, do not require the relocation of significant numbers of people; do not have a significant impact on any natural, cultural, recreational, historic or other resource; do not involve significant air, noise, or water quality impacts; do not have significant impacts on travel patterns; and do not otherwise, either individually or cumulatively, have any significant environmental impacts.
19	CEQ	Council on Environmental Quality: Coordinates Federal environmental efforts and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives.
20	CFLRP	Congress established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) with Title IV of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (PDF, 40 KB). The purpose of the CFLRP is to encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes. This Act includes Title IV: Forest Landscape Restoration. The purpose of this title, and the USDA Forest Service Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program is to conduct hazardous fuel treatments and ecosystem restoration that encourages economic and social sustainability, leverages local resources with national and private resources, reduces wildfire management costs, and addresses the utilization of forest restoration byproducts to offset treatment costs and benefit local economies
21	CFR	Code of Federal Regulations
22	CT-FT	Commercial Thin - Free Thin
23	CT-MP	Commercial Thin Mature Plantations
24	CWD	Coarse Woody Debris
25	DBH	Diameter Breast Height
26	DC	Desired Condition
27	DCH	Designated Critical Habitat
28	DD	Detrimental Disturbance
29	DEIS	Draft Environmental Impact Statement
30	DM	Decision Memorandum
31	EA	Environmental Analysis +DM decision making
32	ECA	Equivalent Clearcut Area
33	E-DNA	Water sampling that can determine if there are bull trout in the stream
34	EIS	Environmental Impact Statement
35	EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
36	ESA	Endangered Species Act
37	FA	Functioning Appropriately
38	FACA	Federal Advisory Committee Act: became law in 1972 and is the legal foundation defining how federal advisory committees operate. The law has special emphasis on open meetings, chartering, public involvement, and reporting.
39	Farm Bill, 2014	The new Farm Bill will allow USDA to continue record accomplishments on behalf of the American people, while providing new opportunity and creating jobs across rural America. It will enable USDA to further expand markets for agricultural products at home and abroad, strengthen conservation efforts, create new opportunities for local and regional food systems and grow the biobased economy. It will provide a dependable safety net for America's farmers, ranchers and growers. It will maintain important agricultural research, and ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all Americans.
40	FEAST	Forest Economic and Analysis Spreadsheet Tool
41	FEIS	Final Environmental Impact Statement
42	FEMA	Federal Emergency Management: FEMA supports citizens and emergency personnel to build, sustain, and improve the nations capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
43	FLOW	Flammulated Owl
44	FMA	Financial Management and Accountability Act, 1997: provides the framework for the proper management of public money and public property by the Executive arm of the Commonwealth. Public money and public property is defined in the Act as money and property in the custody or control of the Commonwealth.
45	FMO	Fuels Management Officer
46	FR	Functioning at Risk
47	FRCC	Fire Regime Condition Class: A natural fire regime is a general classification of the role fire would play across a landscape in the absence of modern human mechanical intervention, but including the influence of aboriginal burning (Agee 1993, Brown 1995). The five natural (historical) fire regimes are classified based on average number of years between fires (fire frequency) combined with the severity (amount of replacement) of the fire on the dominant overstory vegetation.
48	FSH	Forest Service Handbook
49	FSM	Forest Service Manual
50	FT-PC	Free Thin - Patch Cut
51	FUR	Functioning at Unacceptable Risk
52	GFSS	Grass/Forb/Shrub/Seedling: a tree size class
53	GIS	Geographic Information System
54	GNA	Good Neighbor Authority - allows FS to enter into coop agreements or contracts with States and Puerto Rico to allow performance of watershed restoration and forest mgt. on NF lands.
55	GRAIP	An important first step in managing forest roads for improved water quality and aquatic habitat is the performance of an inventory. The Geomorphic Roads Analysis and Inventory Package (GRAIP) was developed as a tool for making a comprehensive inventory and analysis of the effects of forest roads on watersheds.
56	GRAIP Lite	GIS version of GRAIP and it was designed to quickly prioritize watersheds based on road-related sediment production and delivery. It requires a road layer embedded within a GIS. In NetMap, the road layer is integrated within a Digital Hydroscape. GRAIP-Lite requires calibration datasets to calculate road erosion and they are included in NetMap’s GRAIP interface. Users are encouraged to apply the full GRAIP technology to develop calibration datasets for their own landscapes.
57	HBCH	Heartland Back Country Horsement
58	HFRA	Healthy Forest Restoration Act: To improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest System Lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape, and for other purposes.
59	HFT	Hazardous Fuel Treatment
60	HRV	Historic Range of Variability
61	HUC	Hydrologic Unit Code
62	ICL	Idaho Conservation League
63	IDFG	Idaho Department of Fish and Game
64	IDIQ	Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quanity: this is a way to add acres to a previously awarded contract that meet the required criteria.
65	IDL	Idaho Department of Lands
66	IDT	Interdisciplinary Team - Forest Service has recreation, vegetation, wildlife, watershed, etc., specialists who go into the field and analyze needs.
67	IRA	Inventoried Roadless Area: The definition of a roadless area for the 2001 Roadless Rule included: undeveloped areas typically exceeding 5,000 acres that met the minimum criteria for wilderness consideration under the Wilderness Act and that were inventoried during the Forest Service’s Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II) process, subsequent assessments, or forest planning. The 1982 planning regulations and the Forest Service Handbook used the term “roadless areas” when referring to areas to consider for wilderness recommendation. The 2005 Planning Rule (now the 2008 Planning Rule) and the current Forest Service Handbook now use the term” potential wilderness areas” when referring to areas to consider for wilderness recommendation.
68	LAU	Lynx Analysis Units
69	LCAS	Lynx Conservation Assessment Strategy, 2013 This edition of the LCAS provides a full revision, incorporating all prior amendments and clarifications, substantial new scientific information that has emerged since 2000 including related parts of the Lynx Recovery Plan Outline, as well as drawing on experience gained in implementing the 2000 LCAS .Chapter 3, Lynx Geographic Areas, has been substantially revised to incorporate new information about lynx and lynx habitat. The map has also been updated.
70	LCBC	Lost Creek, Boulder Creek, project #2 in the Payette National Forest
71	LIDR	Light Imaging, Detection, & Reflection (used with drones)
72	LRMP	Land and Resource Management Plan
73	LSP	Landslide Prone Area
74	LTC	Long Term Closure. Also means "large tree canopy"
75	MA
76	MBF	Thousand Board Feet
77	MCCM	Mill Creek/Council Mountain, project #1 in the Payette National Forest
78	MFWR	Middle Fork/Weiser River, project #3 in the Payette National Forest
79	MIS	Management Indicator Species
80	MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
81	MPC	Management Prescription Category
82	MRS	Minimum Road System
83	MSW	Modified Shelter wood
84	MVUM	Motor Vehicle Use Map
85	NCT	Non-Commercial Thinning
86	NEPA	The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law that established a U.S. national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment. Additionally, it established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The law was enacted on January 1,1970.
87	NFMA	National Forest Management Act (P.L. 94-588) is a United States federal law that is the primary statute governing the administration of national forests and was an amendment to the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, which called for the management of renewable resources on national forest lands. The law was seen as necessary, because a lawsuit (commonly known as the Monongahela decision) had invalidated many timber practices in the national forests.
88	NIDGS	Northern Idaho Ground Squirrel
89	NOGO	Northern Goshawk
90	NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
91	NOI	Notice of Intent: EPA has updated and improved the electronic Notice of Intent (eNOI) system for construction sites that need to apply for coverage under EPA's 2012 Construction General Permit (CGP) or that need to submit a Low Erosivity Waiver (LEW) form.
92	NPL	not priorities list
93	NRA	National Recreation Area and/or Natural Resource Area(???)
94	NRCS	Natural Resources Conservation Service: facilitates programs that help people reduce soil erosion, enhance water supplies, improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat, and reduce damages caused by floods and other natural disasters.
95	NRI	Nationwide Rivers Inventory
96	OHV	Off Highway Vehicle
97	OML	Operational Maintenance Level - referring to roads
98	PCT	Pre-commercial thinning: unwanted trees are cut down to open up the canopy for preferred species. The usual thing to follow PCT is a prescribed burn.
99	PDF	Product Design Feature
100	PFA	Post Fledgling Area for N. Goshawk