Archived FVS Model Documents

These documents are available as background information for FVS and related programs from the USDA Forest Service's Research and Development Treesearch.

• Prognosis Model for Stand Development (RP-INT-137)
• User's Guide to the Stand Prognosis Model (GTR-INT-133)
• Supplement to the User's Guide for the Stand Prognosis Model, Version 5.0 (GTR-INT-208)
• User's Guide to the Event Monitor: Part of Prognosis Model Version 6 (GTR-INT-275)
• User's Guide to Version 2 of the Regeneration Establishment Model: Part of the Prognosis Model (GTR-INT-279)
• User's Guide to the Parallel Processing Extension of the Prognosis Model (GTR-INT-281)
• The Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (RMRS-GTR-116)
• COVER: A User's Guide to the CANOPY and SHRUBS Extension of the Stand Prognosis Model (GTR-INT-190)
• User's Guide to CHEAPO II-Economic Analysis of Stand Prognosis Model Outputs (GTR-INT-211)
• User's Guide to the Post Processors for the Forest Vegetation Simulator. (.pdf, 423K)
• Stand Visualization System, Version 3.3. (.pdf, 781K)
• A new conversion of Forest Inventory and Analysis data for use in the Forest Vegetation Simulator
• Calibration of state and transition models with FVS
• Forest carbon estimation using the Forest Vegetation Simulator: Seven things you need to know (GTR-NRS-77)
• Implications of Random Variation in the Stand Prognosis Model (Research Note-INT-394)
• Representing Growth Response to Fertilization in the Prognosis Model for Stand Development (Research Note-INT-392)
• Uses and Abuses of Multipliers in the Stand Prognosis Model (GTR-INT-310)

Additional Documents

• Instructions for Running the FVS-WRENSS Water Yield Post-processor (.pdf, 573K)
• Advance FVS Tools for Landscape Planning (.pdf, 8.7M)
• Comparison of Measured Growth and Mortality Trends to Modeled FVS Projections Relative to Oak Decline Impacts as Observed Over Three FIA Inventory Cycles - Mark Twain National Forest (.pdf, 5.9M)
• Crown Ratio Modeling Using Stand Density Index and the Weibull Distribution (.pdf, 513K)
• Evaluating Stand Density Management Alternatives using the Forest Vegetation Simulator (.pdf, 73K)
• A Compendium of NFS Regional Vegetation Classification Algorithms (.pdf, 1.6M)
• Rocky Mountain - Vegetative Structural Stage Forest Vegetation Simulator Post Processing Users Guide (.pdf, 2.6M)
• Rocky Mountain - Vegetative Structural Stage Description and Calculations (.pdf, 2.2M)