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The basic costs of the operations for implementing fuel reduction treatments are used to evaluate treatment effectiveness, select among alternatives, estimate total project costs, and build national program strategies. However, a review of the literature indicates that there is questionable basis for many of the general estimates used to date. Different approaches to estimating cost have been used. Four methods are reviewed with discussion of the appropriate applications to fuel reduction cost analysis. Critical gaps identified in the understanding of operations costs include business overhead, repair and maintenance reserves, and estimates of the cost of risk. Future analyses of fuel treatments should be cautious in extrapolating cost numbers from the existing literature. Published by Elsevier B.V.

USDA Forest Service. 2005. A strategic assessment of forest biomass and fuel reduction A strategic assessment of forest biomass and fuel reduction A strategic assessment of forest biomass and fuel reduction A strategic assessment of forest biomass and fuel reduction A strategic assessment of forest biomass and fuel reduction treatments in Western States treatments in Western States treatments in Western States treatments in Western States treatments in Western States. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-149. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 17 p. http://www.fs.fed.us/research/infocenter.htmlThis assessment characterizes, at a regional scale, forest biomass that can potentially be removed to implement the fuel reduction and ecosystem restoration objectives of the National Fire Plan for the Western United States. The assessment area covers forests on both public and private ownerships in the region and describes all standing tree volume including stems, limbs, and tops. Analysis of treatment areas and potential removals is included. Additionally, the operational systems necessary to effect the treatments as well as potential erosion impacts, utilization opportunities and market implications were examined.

A BSTRACT. The CU~~SIOJW and jillslope on u newly c,onstruc,ted,fi)r~.st rod on the Tclladegu Nutionul Forrsr neur Hqjlin, Aluhamu ujere treuted wYth three erosion control techniques: MYK~~ excelsior erosion mat, nutive gruss species. untl exotic ,ktrus.v .vpcie.v. Bare .voil plots were used us tlze experimmtul controls. Total .vediment Field wus measured during the period 21 September J99.5 to 1X Murch 1996. A rundomized complete block design was used to evaluate treutmellt methods on the basis of sediment yield and runofl volume. No ,sipCjYcunt d$erence in .sediment yield wus ,fiamd,from the jillslrye umong the treatments. However; on the cutslope .si,qnificunt &jj%rences Maere detected among all treutmentx. The erosion mut treutment wus most qffective in mitiguting erosion los.ses with u 98% reduction in cutslope sediment yield and 88% reduction in fi'llslope sediment $eld.

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