Assessment of Need (AON)

Nevada Division of Forestry has completed the Assessment of Need as required by the U.S. Forest Service for the Forest Legacy program. This assessment determined areas in which NDF could accept projects to submit for funding from the Forest Legacy program. The five areas are: Tahoe-Sierra Front, Mt. Charleston, Schell Creek Mountains, Muddy River, and Jarbidge areas.

Spatial Analysis Project (SAP)

Nevada Division of Forestry has completed the Spatial Analysis Project (SAP) as required by the U.S. Forest Service. This assessment is to determine High, Medium and Low potential areas for the Forest Stewardship Program. This assessment was done using GIS (Geographic Information System) software and 13 data layers. Map Showing Stewardship Potential

State Wide Forest Resource Assessment

Nevada Division of Forestry is currently working on a State Wide Assessment mandated by the 2008 Farm Bill. NDF is currently done with phase 1 of the project which is the intial GIS analysis. NDF has just completed phase 2 of the project, which consisted of getting comments from the natural resource groups, Federal, State and local government partners, and the public. NDF completed phase 3 in which all comments were reviewed, any addition, subtraction and possible weighting of GIS layers. NDF is currently doing phase 4 which is the final GIS analysis. Phase 5 will be the written report.

State Wide Expansion of the Biomass Program

Nevada Division of Forestry is currently working on a State Wide Assessment to look at the potential for expanding the Fuels for School program to other public facilities in the state, in order to utilize biomass generated on forest related projects.

Contact Information
John Watermolen
Forest Stewardship Program Coordinator
2478 Fairview Drive
Carson City, Nevada 89701

775-684-2530
Fax: 775-684-2571