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My Fuel Treatment Planner (MyFTP) – a financial analysis tool for fuel treatment planning

My Fuel Treatment Planner (MyFTP) – a financial analysis tool for fuel treatment planning. Stephanie Rebain USFS Forest Management Service Center FVS Staff. Current Collaborators. Dennis Dykstra Peter Noordijk Jamie Barbour from the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Portland, OR.

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My Fuel Treatment Planner (MyFTP) – a financial analysis tool for fuel treatment planning

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  1. My Fuel Treatment Planner (MyFTP) – a financial analysis tool for fuel treatment planning Stephanie Rebain USFS Forest Management Service Center FVS Staff

  2. Current Collaborators • Dennis Dykstra • Peter Noordijk • Jamie Barbour from the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Portland, OR

  3. Presentation • Introduction / History • Model description • Demonstration • Questions

  4. My Fuel Treatment Planner • MyFTP is an MS Excel-based tool for calculating the costs and benefits of fuel treatments • Can help fuel treatment planners evaluate and compare the economic cost of various management activities

  5. MyFTP - History • Developed as part of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project • Need for tools to help plan site-specific fuel treatments in the dry interior forests of the western US • Economic team leads - Jamie Barbour and Roger Fight

  6. MyFTP - History • Generally didn’t develop new models, but organized existing research into an integrated package • Interactions with fuel treatment specialists for general specifications and feedback • Two-day hands-on beta-test of MyFTP

  7. MyFTP - History • Other MyFTP team members • User’s guide produced (PNW-GTR-663) • Currently, MyFTP is relatively stable • The FMSC now provides technical support for MyFTP

  8. The role of MyFTP • Screening tool for treatments and types of stands to treat • Examine tradeoffs between costs and surface fuel levels • Tool for interactive exploration of proposed treatments within ID teams or in public forums

  9. MyFTP – Key Features • Users can compare alternatives • Easily learned and assumes little or no background in economics • Financial analysis (not economic analysis) tool • Users can override most assumptions

  10. MyFTP – Key Features • Economic measure used is the net revenue: revenues from forest products – treatment costs • Revenues: Volume (or Biomass) * Price (taking quality into account) • Costs: • Hauling the product to market • Cost of getting from a standing tree to a product (sawlog, pulp chips, dirty chips) loaded on a truck • Other treatment costs (mastication, piling, burning, etc) • Can also include the cost of planning and administering contracts

  11. MyFTP – Cost Components • The Fuel Reduction Cost Simulator (FRCS) is used to estimate the cost of felling, limbing, bucking, moving material to a landing, and loading it on a truck (based on STHarvest software) • Hauling cost: • daily cost for a truck and driver • the loads per day • the volume per load • Costs of burning and mechanical operations - Calkin and Gebert (RMRS Missoula) • Cost of mastication - Bob Rummer (SRS Auburn) • Other costs are provided by the user

  12. MyFTP • Now it’s time for a demonstration!

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  24. Other Features • Economic Impact Module • User-Added Documentation • Save / Load Scenarios • Multi-stand runs

  25. MyFTP - Applications • Fireshed process • Mechanical fuels treatment course • Individual fuel treatment projects

  26. MyFTP – Where to get it MyFTP software and user’s guide can be downloaded from this site: http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/data/myftp/myftp_home.htm The MyFTP site is also linked to the FVS website under “FVS related links”.

  27. Questions?

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