FVS Documents

Documentation for the Forest Vegetation Simulator includes a variety of bulletins, users guides, manuals, and technical reports.

• User Guides
  User guides for the whole suite of FVS software. This includes the variant overviews.
• Newsletters
  The FVS Newsletter provides updates, fixes, proposed changes, and/or topics of concern with FVS software.
• Insect and Pathogen Models
  Link to the Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team's (FHTET) web page for extensions to the base FVS variants.
• Validation
  Documents related to model testing and adjustments for validating FVS variants.
• Archived Model Documents
  Older user guides available through Treesearch. This includes the original Prognosis guides.
• Additional References
  Additional publications, such as conference proceedings and FMSC internal documents.

Related

• Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) Conferences - includes proceedings and recordings of past FVS conferences.
• FVS Variant Map (.zip, 19.5MB) - GIS shapefile for a map of suggested FVS variants and location codes for the conterminous United States and Alaska.