• Full-time technical support by phone, Email & Web Conference - five days/week, 52 weeks/year - no charge.
• Ongoing, permanent commitment to service of FBRI members as a priority.
• Ongoing, annual refinement of all software components - inventory, growth, planning.
• Regional Libraries updated at least each five-yr interval for volume, growth, silviculture. (Full-Year Analyses)
• All sponsor's participation in other regional research cooperatives incorporated - no charge. (Cooperative Analyses)
• FBRI Regional Libraries based on the largest research database available from any source.
• FBRI software (FPS) is the only fully integrated and consistent forest management package available.
• More forest management organizations rely on FBRI support compared to any other source.
• FBRI maintains over 200 unique Region/Species-specific models west of the Rockies.
• No similar combination of permanent technical support, software and workshops exists elsewhere.
• FBRI was established in 2002 as a 501 c 3 non-profit research corporation (Letter of Determination requested).
• FBRI strives to evolve to a fully-endowed corporation to reduce cost to members in future. (10-Year Plan)

Read the 2002 National Research Council Report, “National Capacity in Forestry Research”, National Academy Press, 144 pages:

• USDA Experiment Stations have ceased to provide relevant biometrics tools. •
  
• No independent professional organization is providing a reference point for yield potentials, certification, appraisal or valuation.
• No organization is providing new research to meet the demands for biometrics tools and silvicultural regimes.
• No organization provides service and software tools to the forest industry for inventory, growth, silviculture and planning.
• No structure exists in any Company, University or USDA Experiment Station that is ready or planning to take on these needs.