Abbreviations and Acronyms

USFS Wilderness Character Monitoring Technical Guide

ALP

Automated Lands Project

AML

Abandoned Mine Lands

ANILCA

Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act

AQS

Air Quality System

AUMs

Animal Unit Months

BAER

Burned Area Emergency Response

BLM

Bureau of Land Management

CFR

Code of Federal Regulations

CL

Critical Load

EDW

Enterprise Data Warehouse

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

FACTS

Forest Service Activity Tracking System

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FIA

Forest Inventory and Analysis

FIRESTAT

Fire Statistics System

FSH

Forest Service Handbook

FSM

Forest Service Manual

FWS

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

GI

Geospatial Interface

GIS

Geographic Information System

gPAS

Geo-Enabled Performance Accountability System

GPS

Global Positioning System

HUC

Hydrologic Unit Code

IM&A

Inventory, Monitoring, and Assessment

IMPROVE

Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments

LEIMARS

Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations Management Attainment Reporting System

LSRS

Land Status Record System

MISIN

Midwest Invasive Species Information Network

MRA

Minimum Requirements Analysis

N

Nitrogen

NAAQS

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

NADP

National Atmospheric Deposition Program

NAS

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species

NEPA

National Environmental Policy Act

NFS

National Forest System

NFST

National Forest System Trail

NHD

National Hydrography Dataset

NH3

Ammonia

NID

National Inventory of Dams

NOX

Nitrogen Oxides

NPS

National Park Service

NRIS

Natural Resource Information System

NRM

Natural Resource Manager

NRM-Air

Natural Resource Manager—Air application

NRM-Buildings

Natural Resource Manager—Buildings application

NRM-Dams

Natural Resource Manager—Dams application

NRM-Features

Natural Resource Manager—Features application

NRM-Heritage

Natural Resource Manager—Heritage application

NRM-Range

Natural Resource Manager—Range application

NRM-Roads

Natural Resource Manager—Roads application

NRM-SUDS

Natural Resource Manager—Special Uses Database System

NRM-TESP-IS

Natural Resource Manager—Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Plants—Invasive Species

NRM-Trails

Natural Resource Manager—Trails application

NRM-WCM

Natural Resource Manager—Wilderness Character Monitoring application

NRM-Wildlife

Natural Resource Manager—Wildlife application

NRM-Wilderness

Natural Resource Manager—Wilderness application

NVUM

National Visitor Use Monitoring

NWPS

National Wilderness Preservation System

PALS

Project Activity Levels

QA

Quality Assurance

QC

Quality Control

SDE

Spatial Data Engine

S

Sulfur

SNOTEL

Snow Telemetry

SO2

Sulfur Dioxide

TDEP

Total Deposition

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

WCC

Watershed Condition Classification

WCF

Watershed Condition Framework

WCM

Wilderness Character Monitoring

WCMD

Wilderness Character Monitoring Database

WFDSS

Wildland Fire Decision Support System

WSP

Wilderness Stewardship Performance