COST ANALYSIS

The cost analysis includes determining costs for road construction, harvest system owning and operating costs, and stump to truck yarding costs. The 1999, 2000, and 2001 capstone reports all contain a lot of information on cost analysis. See 1999 Hoodsport CD for a road construction cost spreadsheet (highlead/fe/pack_forest/pack_1999/hoodsport_99/transportation/docs/DNR_roadcosting.xls), and 2000 Burnt Mountain CD for stump to truck yarding cost spreadsheets (See Report chapter 8 and highlead/fe/pack_forest/pack_2000/production/CostResults). Other good costing tools can be found on the USFS Region 6 website.

(Note: the 2001 cost analysis really overhauled the previous years' reports and is the more up-to-date version.)

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Office: Mar. 31 - Apr. 18	Field: Apr. 21 - May 16	Office: May 19- June 12
Overhead (meetings)	Arrive at ONRC	Final Setting Design
Preliminary Planning	Field Work	Final Road Design
First Day at Pack Forest		Final Alt. Harvest Sys. Analysis
Office Setup		Final Timber Modeling
Project Management Start-up		Cost Analysis
Data Collection		Report
Basemaps		Final Maps
Production Equations		Presentation
Watershed Analysis		Presentation to DNR
Preliminary Timber Modeling		Project Mgmt Data Compilation
Preliminary Setting Design		Report Due
Prelim. Alt. Harvest Sys. Analysis
Preliminary Road Design
Preliminary Report Work
Field Preparation
Field Maps