Video: Jim Arney’s Legacy

 Click here to view the Jim Arney Legacy Video (on Vimeo). Jim Arney was the President of the Institute and the sole developer and guiding visionary for the Forest Projection System or FPS software. He dedicated 30 years of his career to writing a growth and yield model to …

Passing of Dr. James Arney

Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is with overwhelming sadness that we inform you of the passing of Dr. James D. Arney on June 14, 2021, due to a medical condition.  Jim was the founder and driving force behind FBRI since its inception in 2002.  He will be missed tremendously as …

The Evolution of Forest Inventory

The Evolution of Forest Inventory (A Comparison of Satellite, Lidar, and Traditional Forest Inventory Methods) James D. Arney, PhD and Mark V. Corrao, PhD[1] For nearly two centuries’ foresters have worked within the constraints of data and time to build representative ‘inventories’ that describe the spatial and structural variations of …