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Category: FPS Help Documents

Category: FPS Help Documents

Home FPS/FBRI Resources Archive for category "FPS Help Documents"

Forest Planning and Projection System (FPS) Versions: 2019 – 2020

Forest Planning and Projection System (FPS) Versions: 2019 – 2020

2019 and 2020 updates include incorporating the services available through satellite technology. On the user side, FPS is now working with additional database systems, such as Microsoft SQL Server Express.

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Forest Planning and Projection System (FPS) Versions: 2010 – 2018

Forest Planning and Projection System (FPS) Versions: 2010 – 2018

The years 2010 – 2018 added the important factor of the shade tolerance of tree species to the data library. On the technical side, the software was updated for Windows 7 in March of 2011.

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Forest Planning and Projection System (FPS) Versions: 2000 – 2009

Forest Planning and Projection System (FPS) Versions: 2000 – 2009

Many of the updates and new features added to FPS during the years 2000 – 2009 accommodated the affects of thinning and silvicultural practices. New accounting functionality was also added.

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Forest Planning and Projection System (FPS) Versions: 1972 – 1999

Forest Planning and Projection System (FPS) Versions: 1972 – 1999

From an academic project, starting in 1972, to a robust forestry projection tool, FPS went through numerous technology updates and new features in the years 1972 – 1999. Some of the changes were results of new forestry practices.

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New FPS Publication: How to Link FPS and Microsoft SQL Server Express Databases

FBRI has issued a step-by-step instruction manual on how to link FPS and Microsoft SQL Server Express (SQL Express) databases.

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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.

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Guidebook for FPS Forest Planning

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

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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

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Building and Managing FPS SiteGrid GIS Layers

Building and Managing FPS SiteGrid GIS Layers FPS SiteGrid Methods for Forest Inventory, Forest Growth and Forest Planning 2015  

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FPS Manual 2015: The Forester’s Guidebook

The Forester’s Guidebook for Managing Working Forests This guidebook has been 20 years in building.  It has been regularly distributed as a hard copy 328 page textbook along with the Forest Projection and Planning System (FPS) software.  The FBRI has now made this guidebook a free download from this site …

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FPS is unavailable to download at this time.  A new FPS version 7.58 will be released shortly and a download link will become available.

  • 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.

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  • 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

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