This entails an analysis of productivity for various harvest systems, including ground, cable, and helicopter systems. Products will include $/MBF, Lateral Yarding Distance, and target External Yarding Distance for the harvest systems included in our analysis. This information is necessary for the cost analysis and for the alternate harvest systems analysis.

The 1999 and 2000 Capstone Project CDs contain a lot of information on production equations. They are available on the CFR network at highlead/home/fe/pack_forest/pack_1999/hoodsport_99/production and highlead/home/fe/pack_forest/pack_2000/production. For information on helicopter production, use the USFS Helipace program.

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