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Forest Vegetation Simulator

FVS User Guides

Essential FVS: A User's Guide to the Forest Vegetation Simulator Document Cover.

These documents are available as user guides and background information for FVS, related models, and programs. The variant overviews provide specific information about each variant.

You can download the document directly from the links in the File column.

Common User Guides
Document File Date File Size
Essential FVS: A User’s Guide to the Forest Vegetation Simulator 04-26-2013 EssentialFVS.pdf 1.9M
Keyword Reference Guide for the Forest Vegetation Simulator 05-01-2013 keyword.pdf 830k
DRAFT The Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator: Updated Model Documentation 12-18-2012 FFEguide.pdf 6.6M
Additional User Guides
Document File Date File Size
Users Guide to the Database Extension of the Forest Vegetation Simulator Version 2.0 10-30-2012 DBSUserGuide.pdf 631k
FVS_DB_LINK Utility: User's Guide 09-28-2012 FVS_DB_LINK.pdf 388k
Percent Canopy Cover and Stand Structure Statistics from the Forest Vegetation Simulator (RMRS-GTR-24) 03-15-2001 percancv.pdf 239k
Snag Dynamics in the PN, WC, BM, EC, and SO variants 03-07-2013 R6snags.pdf 3.1M
Stand Visualization System, Version 3.3 04-13-2004 WinSVS3_3.pdf 781k
Climate-FVS Version 1: Notes for Users 09-10-2010 ClimateFVSKeywords.pdf 69k
User's Guide to the Post Processors for the Forest Vegetation Simulator. 07-02-2008 postprocessors.pdf 423k
User Guide To The FVS Economic Extension (ECON), January 2008 01-30-2012 EconUserGuide.pdf 266k
Variant Overviews
Variant File Date File Size
Southeast Alaska and Coastal British Columbia 05-08-2013 FVSak_Overview.pdf 707k
Blue Mountains 05-08-2013 FVSbm_Overview.pdf 1.2M
Inland California and Southern Cascades 05-08-2013 FVSca_Overview.pdf 1.3M
Central Idaho 05-08-2013 FVSci_Overview.pdf 1.5M
Central Rockies 05-09-2013 FVScr_Overview.pdf 1.7M
Central States 05-24-2013 FVScs_Overview.pdf 1.9M
East Cascades 05-09-2013 FVSec_Overview.pdf 1.2M
Eastern Montana 05-09-2013 FVSem_Overview.pdf 1.5M
Klamath Mountains 05-09-2013 FVSnc_Overview.pdf 1.2M
Kootenai, Kaniksu, and Tally Lake (KooKanTL) 05-15-2013 FVSkt_Overview.pdf 1.5M
Lake States 05-09-2013 FVSls_Overview.pdf 975k
Northeast 05-24-2013 FVSne_Overview.pdf 1.7M
Inland Empire 05-15-2013 FVSie_Overview.pdf 1.6M
Pacific Northwest Coast 05-09-2013 FVSpn_Overview.pdf 1.8M
Southern 05-09-2013 FVSsn_Overview.pdf 1.6M
South Central Oregon and Northeast California (SORNEC) 05-09-2013 FVSso_Overview.pdf 2.0M
Tetons 05-09-2013 FVStt_Overview.pdf 1002k
Utah 05-09-2013 FVSut_Overview.pdf 1.7M
Westside Cascades 05-09-2013 FVSwc_Overview.pdf 1.3M
Western Sierra Nevada 05-09-2013 FVSws_Overview.pdf 1.2M
Variant Overview Supplemental Information
Document File Date File Size
Species Crosswalks Used in Eastern and Western FVS Variants - a Microsoft Excel Workbook including the species crosswalks used in eastern FVS variants (CS, LS, NE, and SN) and western FVS variants (AK, BM, CA, CI, CR, EC, ID, NC, KT, PN, SO, TT, UT, WC, WS). Each species (sorted by scientific name) is mapped to a corresponding species in a given variant. 01-04-2013

01-04-2013
FVS_SpeciesCrosswalk.xls

FVS_SpeciesCrosswalk.pdf
317k

532k

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