Landscape Management System

Welcome to the Landscape Management System Home Page

The Landscape Management Project is a cooperative project between the University of Washington College of Forest Resources Silviculture Laboratory, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, The Cradle of Forestry in America, and the USDA Forest Service. Its purpose is to develop the concepts and tools needed to help forests provide the wide range of values people want -- including commodities, wildlife habitat, fire safety, employment, and carbon sequestration. These values are best provided by coordinating the dynamic changes of forests across a landscape, rather than by trying to provide each or all values continuously on a single area.

LMS News:

2008/04/30 - LMS-2.1 includes new volume tables (Standing and Cut tables summarize by species; Volume by Size Class tables summarize by size class and species; Stand level tables are summarized per acre; Landscape level tables are expanded by acres to give stand and landscape totals), fixes cut biomass calculations in Carbon Sequstratin Table, fixed FVS crashing after landscape visualization, fixed regeneration problem with interactive growth, update to FVS variants (2008/04/04), base install now includes FFE Tools and Inventory Wizard.
2007/09/06 - LMS-2.0.45r17 Adds Consequences - Southeast table and updates FVS variants (2007/08/20).
2007/08/27 - LMS 3.1 Release 4 is now available! See the LMS 3.x Page for more information.
2006/06/28 - LMS on Capital Ideas -- Live, June 2006 News Conference for Forest Owners Sponsored by Alabama Forest Owners' Association, Inc.
2005/10/31 - Inventory Wizard 2.2 with simplified sample plot entry is now available.
2005/10/28 - LMS Analyst for ArcView 3.x was updated to add functionality to tally adjacent polygons.
2005/03/16 - New support email address! See LMS Support page for the address.

Two versions of LMS are available:

LMS 2.x
  • Works with Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
  • Includes FVS, Organon, SVS, and EnVision
  • Table output to Excel or text editor
  • Inventory Wizard, Economatic, Carbon, Wildlife habitat, Fire Risk.
  • Limited size of portfolios.
LMS 3.x
  • Works with Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
  • Includes FVS, Organon, SVS, and EnVision
  • Table output to Access, Excel, or text editor
  • Inventory Wizard
  • Larger portfolios

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 8:00 PM


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