NRSFIA RMT 2015 FIA Strategic Plan

NRSFIA RMT 2015

FIA Strategic Plan • Finally sent to Congress! • End of a 5 year effort! – Initial call for input 2010 – Decision to link to Farm Bill – Delayed awaiting Farm Bill passage – Various review drafts 2012, 2013, and 2014 – Delivered to Congress 2015

FIA Strategic Plan Farm Bill Funding Options A: Status Quo B: Recovery and Add Interior AK C: Enhance and Expand the Core D: Speed and Unify the Cycle E: Enhance and Expand Partnerships F: Leveraged Partner Intensifications

Any Farm Bill Related Funding Increases • Initiate Interior AK – the last hurdle • Re-allocate for increases in forest area Region South Rocky Mountain North Pacific Total • Inroads on Option C – – – Carbon TPO NWOS Land use change Urban New forest area (mm acres) 55 26 9 5 95

FIA Budget Situation FY 16 Funding FY 10 FY 11 FY 12 FY 13 FY 14 FY 15 PP House Senate CR FIA Source (mm $) (mm $) (mm $) National R&D 66. 9 66. 8 64. 2 60. 9 66. 8 70. 0 ~83. 0 ~70. 0 ~80. 0 ~70. 0 S&PF 4. 9 4. 6 4. 3 3. 7 0. 0 0. 0 71. 8 71. 5 68. 6 64. 6 66. 8 70. 0 ~83. 0 ~70. 0 ~80. 0 ~70. 0 Total NRS R&D S&PF Total 16. 6 0. 6 15. 9 1. 2 15. 5 1. 1 14. 6 1. 0 15. 5 0. 0 17. 3 17. 1 16. 7 15. 6 15. 5 16. 4 ~16. 4? 0. 0 16. 4 ~16. 4? 0. 0 ~16. 4? FY 16 Looking FLAT ~16. 4 0. 0 ~16. 4

R&D Budget Situation National Diff. from FY 15 FY 16 PP FY 15 (mm $) (mm$) Diff. FY 16 from House FY 15 Senate FY 15 (mm $) FY 16 CR (mm $) Diff. from FY 15 (mm $) 70 ~83 +13 ~70 +0 ~80 +10 ~70 +0 Rest of R&D 226 ~209 -17 ~208 -18 ~212 -14 ~226 +0 R&D total 296 ~292 -4 ~278 -18 ~292 -4 ~296 +0 FIA • • Total R&D budget reductions Rest of R&D especially hard hit FIA increases coming out of Rest of R&D From a Station perspective CR best option

NRSFIA Budget Situation • • Reduced budgets and increasing fixed costs Operating costs being squeezed from both ends

NRSFIA Budget Situation Details • Fixed costs up • Fed staffing down • Outsourced staffing fluctuates with Operating

NRSFIA Budget Situation Outlook Given: • Operating budgets within the Unit • Zero-sum funding game within R&D • Current flat funding for FY 16 • Immediate focus of any new Farm Bill funding Then for the immediate future: • Relatively flat funding • Status quo delivery • Building capacity and delivery as funding allows

Organizational Changes NRS-05 Natural Resources I & M T P O N W O S F I A N I M A C N G H G I I T R E E New!

Reporting Reducing Pub Costs • Standard templates • < layout $$$ • Printing costs • • Page limits Copy limits • Fewer Pubs • Sub-regional reports • • • Southern New England Plains States NH/VT • Push to Digital – – – Business Analytics ESRI Story Maps Minimize Hardcopy

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Reporting Partnering for Core Reporting • States take on leader author role – States know issues best (relevancy) – Build internal FIA expertise • Feds provide support role – – – Oversight Coaching/Training/Data access Coauthor Orchestration Station QA protocols Publication templates/procedures $$$ • Being tested in WI • Feds focus more on – Special issues – x-state issues – Regional/national product line specialists