SIMFOR Version 3.0 is a decision support tool designed to help managers and researchers evaluate the impacts of forest harvesting scenarios against landscape and habitat indicators. The primary objective of SIMFOR is to project general trends in selected indicators of forest structure and function through space and time. Utilizing GIS-based information, such as stand age and composition, SIMFOR combines harvesting plans with projections of forest attribute development to predict habitat occurrences and measure landscape pattern. A multifaceted program, SIMFOR can be used in conjunction with spatially explicit harvest schedulers to explore harvest policy outcomes.

SIMFOR was developed under the direction of Dr. Fred Bunnell at the Centre for Applied Conservation Research (CACR), University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry (Vancouver, British Columbia).