Welcome To The Forest Biometrics Research Institute

The Forest Biometrics Research Institute (FBRI) is a non-profit public research corporation dedicated to sustainable and scientifically based forest management. Forest Biometrics is the science of forest (Bio) measurement (metrics). The Forest Biometrics Research Institute is a research, development, service and education organization in the field of forest inventory, forest growth and forest planning.

FBRI serves the forest industry by providing tools and methods for quantifying forest growth while enabling forest stewards to consider the interwoven goals of timber production, wildlife protection, watershed management and alternative forest uses. In order to ensure that today's decisions will remain wise decades into the future, the FBRI is committed to supplying repeatable and scientifically based approaches, factors and proceedures for forest management.

The FBRI provides the only fully certified library of regional species quantitative parameters for site capacity, taper and volume determination, growth and mortality rates, and biomass and carbon sequestration rates and capacities. These regional libraries are updated periodically (3 to 6 years) to assure the most accurate and current assessments of forest quantitative capacities for forest planning, sustainability and valuation assessments. There is no better or more accurate source available to the working forest manager to verify and quantify the capacity of the forest under any and all silvicultural regimes and management goals than the Regional Species Libraries from FBRI.

The FBRI - FPS software has been updated to Version 6.97. It was available as of December 13, 2010. FPS Version 7.0 software will be released at the November 17, 2011 Annual Meeting. It contains much expanded Regional Libraries, growth dynamics, biomass and carbon reporting capacities.

If you manage a "working forest", then you need the resources of FBRI to assess and manage your forest capacity. Why FBRI? Download and read "What Models Provide" from the SAF 2010 National Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 28, 2010. Also read "National Capacity in Forestry Research" from the National Science Council in 2002. (Both papers available as downloads at left margin).

Remember, a healthy forest is a young forest. A forest is a renewable resource. Proponents of "Save a Tree" do not understand this fact. Healthy forests provide the highest level of sustainable wildlife habitat, watershed protection, permanent jobs and tax basis for schools and roads. These are facts that are quantifyable, repeatable and defensible.