Information and data about economics and planning

Financial Data for planning -- Program expenditures by Forest, program, BOC, fund code, work activity; GDP Deflators

Spatial Data for economic analysis -- BEA functional economic area definitions, ArcView datasets

IMPLAN

Under a site license from the Minnesota Implan Group Inc. the US Forest Service uses a database and modeling system dubbed IMPLAN (IMpact analysis for PLANning) to carry out regional economic studies of the consequences of Agency decisions and proposed actions. Some typical applications of regional economic analysis are:

• Affected environment analysis

• Community diversity and dependency analysis

• Rural development

• Forest planning

• Strategic planning

• Policy analysis

IMPLAN Compliance with Office of Management and Budget Information Quality Guidelines

IMPLAN and the Freedom of Information Act

World Wide Web users may acquire additional information about IMPLAN by contacting:

• Susan Winter at swinter@fs.fed.us or 970-295-5726

• Mike Niccolucci at mniccolucci@fs.fed.us or 406-542-4168

The Minnesota IMPLAN Group website may be accessed at: http://www.implan.com