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 and 2000 capstone reports both 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.