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| ACS | Aquatic Conservation Strategy - Developed by the NWFP to maintain and restore the ecological health of watersheds and aquatic ecosystems. The ACS consists of nine objectives to be achieved by implementing four ACS components. The components of ACS are riparian reserves, key watershed, watershed analysis, and watershed restoration. |
| AMA | Adaptive Management Area - Areas designed to encourage the development and testing of technical and social approaches to land management. There are 10 of these areas established by the NWFP. |
| AMS | Analysis of Management Situation (BLM term used in planning) |
| AREMP | Aquatic and Riparian Effectiveness Monitoring Program |
| ASQ | Allowable Sale Quality - Timber volume that may be sold within a certain time period from a specified area in accordance with management plans. |
| ATO | Agenda Topic Overview - Briefing document prepared for IAC members prior to a regularly scheduled meeting. |
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| BF | Board Feet - Lumber or timber measurement of the amount of wood contained in an unfinished board 1"x12"x12". MBF = thousand; MMBF = million. |
| BIA | USDI, Bureau of Indian Affairs - Agency responsible for administration of a variety of programs involving tribal governments, individual Indian Trust Responsibility and government-to-government consultations and requirements for entire Federal government. |
| BLM | USDI, Bureau of Land Management - Manages 270 million acres of public lands in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield. |
| BOR | USDI, Bureau of Recreation |
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| Council of Environmental Quality - Organization within the Executive Office of the President that gives the President general advice on environmental issues. | |
| CERT | Community Economic Revitalization Teams - Teams in each state responsible for coordinating all types of Federal financial assistance. Also see SCERT and RCERT. |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations - Federal regulations codifying Federal law. |
| COE | Army Corps of Engineers - Military and civil engineering and construction responsibilities. Under the Corps' civil works program, it is responsible for the planning, design, construction, and operation of flood control, navigation, hydroelectric power, water supply, and other projects. Within Department of Defense (and Department of the Army). May also use the acronym USACE. |
| CSP | Conservation Security Plan - Natural Resource Conservation Service program for supporting on-the-ground conservation efforts. |
| CWA | Clean Water Act - Objectives to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters. Law administered by EPA. Delegates power to States. |
| CWD | Coarse Woody Debris - Portion of a tree that has fallen or been cut and left in the woods. Usually refers to pieces at least 20 inches in diameter. |
| CX | Categorical Exclusion - Under NEPA, those actions that are categorically excluded from the documentation requirement in an environmental analysis or EIS. |
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| d.b.h. | Diameter at breast height - a common measurement for timber |
| DCA | Designated Conservation Area - Contiguous area of habitat to be managed and conserved for spotted owls under the Final Draft Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl. |
| DEIS | Draft Environmental Impact Statement - A draft document, released for public comment prior to making final agency decisions. |
| DFO | Designated Federal Officer - Federal administrator for a FACA committee. |
| DSEIS | Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement - Draft version of a Supplemental EIS. |
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| EA | Environmental Assessment - A systematic analysis of site-specific activities used to determine whether such activities have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment and whether an EIS is required. |
| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement - Environmental planning document required by NEPA before major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. See also DEIS, DSEIS, EA, FEIS, SEIS. |
| EM | Effectiveness Monitoring - which could apply to several Implementation Monitoring modules such as socio-economics, tribal, etc. |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency - Funds and administers Federal water quality, clean air, and waste management programs. Reviews and, when needed, refers Federal agency actions to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). |
| ESA | Endangered Species Act - Provides legal means to conserve and protect species listed as threatened and endangered, and a program for the conservation of such endangered and threatened species. Administered by the FWS and NMFS. |
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| FACA | Federal Advisory Committee Act - Governs the establishment of committees which include non-Federal members to provide advice and recommendations to officers and agencies in the executive branch in the implementation of a proposal or plan when collaboration with public members is sought. |
| FEIS | Final EIS - Final EIS prepared after considering public comment on the draft EIS (DEIS). |
| FEMAT | Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team - One of three interagency working groups created by the NFP. |
| FGDC | Federal Geographic Data Committee - The Federal Geographic Data Committee coordinates the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI encompasses policies, standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and share geographic data |
| FLPMA | Federal Land Policy and Management Act - Establishes the policy for inventory, disposition, and management of public lands. Basic statute for BLM. |
| FOIA | Freedom of Information Act - Provides access to Federal agency records with some exceptions. |
| FS | USDA, Forest Service - Administers National Forests and National Grasslands and is responsible for management of the resources through the implementation of sound forest management practices. |
| FWS | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Primary mission to conserve, protect and enhance fish and wildlife, and their habitats. Primary responsibilities for migratory birds, endangered species, fisheries, and some marine mammals. Within USDI, usually proceeded by "US" to denote Federal agency. Lead agency on ESA along with NMFS. |
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| GIS | Geographic Information System - A spatial information management system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations. |
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| HCA | Habitat Conservation Area - A contiguous block of habitat to be managed and conserved for breeding pairs, connectivity, and distribution of owls. |
| HCP | Habitat Conservation Plan - Plan developed under the Endangered Species Act to protect threatened and endangered species on non-Federal lands while allowing some level of impact to the species from management activities. |
| HFI | Healthy Forest Initiative - a complementary program that is separate and unique from the Northwest Forest Plan. |
| HUC | Habitat Unit Codes; may also be Hydrologic Unit code |
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| IAC | Intergovernmental Advisory Committee - Twenty-two member Federal advisory committee of Federal, State, Tribal, and county government officials chartered under the FACA to provide intergovernmental advice to the Regional Interagency Executive Committee (RIEC) on the implementation of the Forest Plan. |
| IDT | Interdisciplinary Team - A group of individuals with varying areas of specialties assembled to solve a problem or perform a task. |
| IM | Implementation Monitoring - The purpose of the Implementation Monitoring program for the NWFP is to determine and document whether the ROD its corresponding Standards & Guidelines are being consistently followed across the range of the Northern Spotted Owl. |
| IMG | Intermediate Managers Group provides an intermediate oversight level for the Special Status Species Program (formerly known as the Survey and manage Intermediate Managers Group) |
| IMGSSS | Intermediate Managers Group Special Status Species Program (replaces Survey and Manage) |
| IMIRG | Intermediate Managers Issue Resolution Group - an interagency team that is focusing on Aquatic Conservation Strategy compliance. |
| IPBG | Interagency Priority Budget Group - The group's mission was to focus on budget and priority integration, coordination, oversight, and the resolution of apparent conflicting priorities and funding. The group was active from July 1998 to April 1999. |
| IRICC | Interorganizational Resource Information Coordinating Council - Group to establish a consistent and accessible information network to support ecosystem management. Subcommittee of the IAC. |
| IRT | Issue Resolution Team - FS and BLM groups which review field activities for consistency with the ROD. |
| ISC | Interagency Steering Committee - Policy level group of officials in Washington, D.C. providing policy oversight for the NFP. Includes Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce; EPA, and the White House. The RIEC reports to this group. |
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| JITW | Jobs-in-the-Woods - A worker training and job creation program as part of the economic development side of the NFP. Provides jobs for watershed restoration and other environmental restoration programs. |
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| LS/OG or LSOG |
Late-successional/old-growth - Forests or stands consisting of trees and biological communities and processes associated with old growth and/or mature forests, usually at least 80 to 220 years old. |
| LSR | Late-Successional Reserve - A land allocation of the Forest Plan managed to enhance late-successional/old-growth conditions. |
| LSRA | Late-Successional Reserve Assessment |
| LTEW | Long-Term Ecological Work - |
| LUA | Land Use Allocation - Several broad categories of land uses were identified in the NWFP which included previously reserved areas (such as Congressional Reserved Areas and Administratively Withdrawn Areas), Northwest Forest Plan Reserve system (late-successional and riparian reserves), and areas that were available for programmed timber harvest. |
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| MAMU | Typically refers to the Marbeled Murlette Monitoring program. |
| MMBF | Board Feet - Lumber or timber measurement of the amount of wood contained in an unfinished board 1"x12"x12". MBF = thousand; MMBF = million. |
| MOA | Memorandum of Agreement - Written agreement between parties, usually obligating Federal money. |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding - Written agreement between parties, not obligating Federal money. |
| MPM | Monitoring Program Managers - This group provides interagency management of the NWFP monitoring effort. |
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| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act - To encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment, and to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and the biosphere. |
| NFMA | National Forest Management Act - Establishes a comprehensive notice and comment process for adopting or amending FS land and resource management plans, among other things. |
| NFP | National Fire Plan - NFP was also previously used for the Northwest Forest Plan. NWFP was adopted for the Northwest Forest Plan around 2001 to help clearly identify the two activities. |
| NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service - Primary mission is to conserve, protect and enhance anadromous and marine fisheries and their habitats. Within NOAA-Fisheries and Department of Commerce. Lead agency on Endangered Species Act, along with the FWS. |
| NOAA | USDC, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - In the Department of Commerce, responsible for research and services for the protection and rational use of living marine resources for aesthetic, economic, and recreational value. |
| NPS | USDI, National Parks Service - Manages the national park system comprised of more than 360 parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, and recreation units. Manages for preservation of resources rather than multiple-use. |
| NRCS | USDA, Natural Resource Conservation Service - Provides technical and educational assistance with watershed projects, flood protection, water supply/management, recreation and wildlife habitat. Previously the Soil Conservation Service. Has no regulatory powers. |
| NSO | Northern Spotted Owl - The Northern Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis caurina, was placed on the list of threatened species (ESA) in 1990. NSO conservation is a major component of the NFP which relied heavily on earlier science-based planning efforts for the species. |
| NWFP | Northwest Forest Plan - Same as President's Forest Plan; previously used NFP acronym, |
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| O&C | Oregon and California Lands - Public lands granted to the Oregon and California (O&C) Railroad Company or the Coos Bay Wagon Road Company and subsequently returned to the U.S. Managed by the BLM under the O&C Lands Re-investment Act. |
| OFED | Office of Forestry and Economic Development - Established at the request of the White House to oversee and coordinate the NWFP's forest management, economic revitalization, and interagency cooperation components through 1995. Office closed in 1997. |
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| PAC | Provincial Advisory Committee - FACA chartered committees for each of the 12 NWFP provinces, composed of locally interested parties to provide advice to the PIECs. |
| PACFISH | Interim strategy for managing anadromous fish producing watersheds in Eastern Oregon and Washington, Idaho, and portions of California. |
| PNAMP | Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership - an ad hoc partnership of State and Federal natural resource and watershed specialists that meet to coordinate/integrate watershed condition monitoring efforts. Established by the RIEC in August of 2003. |
| PIEC | Provincial Interagency Executive Committee - Committees for each of the 12 NWFP provinces, composed of Federal members of the agencies signatory to the MOU. |
| PNW | USDA, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station - FS Station having lead responsibility for forest-related research on Federal lands within the region, covering Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. |
| PSCC | Pacific Salmon Coordinating Committee - Interagency group of Federal and Northwest regional officials, to coordinate activities of Federal agencies in developing and implementing conservation and restoration plans for Pacific salmon and associated habitats. Agencies include NMFS, FWS, EPA, FS, BLM, BOR, BIA, NPS, USGS, COE, BPA, NRCS. |
| PSQ | Probable Sale Quantity - Used by the FEMAT team to describe the allowable harvest levels for the various alternatives that could be maintained without decline over the long term if the schedule of harvests and regeneration were followed. |
| PSW | USDA, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station - FS Station having lead responsibility for forest-related research on Federal lands within the region, covering California, Hawaii, and the Pacific Island trust territories. |
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| RAC | Resource Advisory Committee - See Healthy Forest Initiative |
| RCERT | Regional Community Economic Revitalization Team - Works with SCERTs to develop ecosystem investment opportunities and awarding grants and loans. Also see CERT and SCERT. |
| REO | Regional Ecosystem Office - Established by the NWFP as a staff group to support and facilitate RIEC decision making and interagency issue resolution. Serves as "staff" to RIEC/IAC. |
| RIEC | Regional Interagency Executive Committee - The 12 Federal agencies of the 22 members of the IAC: FS, BLM, NMFS, FWS, BIA, NPS, EPA, NRCS, COE, and research agencies for EPA, FS, and USGS. Established to facilitate implementation of the NFP. |
| RMC | Research and Monitoring Committee - Established by the NWFP to focus on coordinating scientific oversight, monitoring and research for the NWFP; a subcommittee of the IAC. |
| RMG | Research & Monitoring Group - Permanent staff assigned by EPA, FS, and USGS research to the REO. The Federal scientists on the RMC providing scientific oversight of NWFP implementation. |
| RMP | Resource Management Plan - Term used by several agencies for their resource planning documents. |
| RNA | Research Natural Area - An area set aside by a public or private agency specifically to preserve a representative sample of an ecological community, primarily for scientific and educational purposes. |
| ROD | Record of Decision - The decision document signed by an agency head based upon a Final EIS. Although used frequently as if specific only to the NWFP, the term applicable to any EIS decision. |
| RR | Riparian Reserve |
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| S&Gs | Standards and Guidelines - Specific directions for management actions established by the NWFP, specifying the environmental conditions or levels to be achieved and maintained. |
| SCERTS | State Community Economic Revitalization Teams - Teams in each state responsible for coordinating all types of Federal financial assistance. Also see CERT and RCERT. |
| S&M | Survey and Manage - Specific S&Gs established by the NWFP for the protection of originally over 400 at-risk species associated with late successional forests, and not otherwise protected by S&Gs. |
| SEIS | Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement - NEPA document that analyses new information or circumstances not covered by a previously prepared EIS. |
| SPUDD | Spatial Unified Data Directory - A regionwide interagency database application that provides an inventory of digital spatial data and its metadata for the NWFP area. |
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| TMAG | Tribal Monitoring Advisory Group. A subgroup under the IAC. |
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| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture - Along with Department of the Interior, serves as a primary custodian of Federal lands and natural resources, along with other services connected with agriculture, food and nutrition. FS and NRCS. |
| USDI | U.S. Department of the Interior - Along with Department of Agriculture, serves as a primary custodian of Federal lands and natural resources, along with other services connected with tribal trust lands. Includes BLM, BIA, NPS, FWS, USGS. |
| USGS | USDI, Geological Survey - Bureau responsible for earth and life science research, inventory and monitoring, mapping, and information transfer programs of Interior Bureaus. |
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| WA | Watershed Analysis - One component of the Aquatic Conservation Strategy (ACS). An analytical (not decision-making) process focused on collecting and compiling information within a watershed that is essential for making sound management decisions. |
| WACT | Watershed Analysis Coordination Team - An interagency group responsible for the revision of the current "Federal Agency Guide for Pilot Watershed Analysis." Revision completed August 1995. See our library for reports and additional information. |
| WUI | Wildland Urban Interface - See Healthy Forest Initiative |
| Last updated Monday, October 03, 2005 |