FPS Help Documents Archives - Forest Biometrics Research Institute

Fundamentals and Best Practices for Forest Inventories – Session 4

Fundamentals and Best Practices for Forest Inventories – Session 3

Fundamentals and Best Practices for Forest Inventories – Session 2

Fundamentals and Best Practices for Forest Inventories – Session 1

Year-end Reporting and The transition to the FPS 7.55 Software Suite

The Year-end Forest Inventory Report is a standard set of reports which every forester should produce at the end of every year.

Guidebook for FPS Forest Planning

Guidebook for FPS Forest Planning Biometric Methods for Forest Planning (PDF) Excerpt from The Forester’s Guidebook

Step by Step Guide for Running FPS Harvest Scheduler

Step by Step Guide for Running FPS Harvest Scheduler The Forester’s Quick Steps to Building an Annual Harvest Schedule (PDF) Based on an FPS-based Working Forest Inventory – by James D. Arney, Sept. 2018

FPS Training Video: Using GIS

FPS Training Video: SVS Install

FPS Training Video: SVS Options

The FPS 7.55 download link will be inactive until the first week in January 2020. An updated 2020 version of FPS is being prepared and a notice will be sent out once it is ready for download.

All downloaded FPS versions open in demo mode with FPS operating at approximately 80% functionality.
A member activation key is needed for full functionality.
Microsoft Access is needed to operate FPS.

Annual license fee for land owning entities: $.07/acre of ownership, minimum $3,500 and maximum $50,000
OR
Annual license fee for non land owning entities: $3,500 per office
Supporting organization dues include unlimited tech support, FPS updates and a user manual.
Call Melinda at 503-227-0622 to obtain a license