"USFS $ 1 Million Projects" in the QLG Area

Updated April 1996

Forest

Name

Activity

Contractor

Acres

Estimated total mbf equivalent

Actual sawlog mbf

Actual Biomass as mbf

  Estimated Cost

Actual Cost

Cost per Acre

LNF

Bear/Wilson Machine Pile Morris 925       $60,000 $34,9461 $37.78

"

Shotoverin " " Stevenson 200       $30,000 $15,4701 $77.35

"

Butt Creek " " Lindsay 314       $50,000 $24,963 $79.50

"

Almanor/Prattville DFPZ USFS 350       $25,000 $83,000* $237.14

"

Butt Creek Thinning (pending) 1,017 7,600 3,100 4,500 $145,000 $127,000* $124.88
  Other Fuelbreak (see note 32)              

 

Forest

Name

Activity

Contractor

Acres

Estimated
total mbf equivalent

Actual sawlog mbf

Biomass as mbf

 Estimated Cost Actual Cost

Cost per Acre

PNF

 Goat Hill/Keddie Thinning SPI 313 1,173 **     $37,000 $43,422 $138.73
" Kellogg " SPI 150 790**     $35,000 $20,809 $138.73
  Westside Biomass " SPI 56 59**       $7,769 $138.73
Totals       519       $72,000 $72,000  


Forest

Name

Activity

Contractor

Total Acres

Estimated
total mbf equivalent

Actual sawlog mbf

Biomass as mbf

 Estimated Cost Actual Cost

Cost per Acre

TNF/SRD

Kyburz & Sardine Thinning Ridgely 1,194 2,200 2,200 5,100 $275,500 $253,740 $212.51
" Calpine CDZ Hood 146 500 204 21 $50,000 $40,150 $275.00
" Kyburz Fuelbreak USFS 150 400     $63,500    
  Sardine Underburn USFS 110            
  Additional Costs               $95,110  
Totals       1,600 3,100 2,404 5,121 $389,000 $389,000  

 

Category Acres Estimated total mbf equivalent Estimated
Cost		 Actual Cost
Totals for "on the ground" projects 4,925 12,722 $771,000 $746,379
Technical Fuels Report     $61,000* $61,000
Assessment of Conditions for subsequent planning     $168,000* $168,000
Total Cost     $1,000,000 $975,379

 

Funds Distribution Actual Cost Percent
USFS Work $324,110 33.2%
Contracted $651,269 66.8%

* Dollar amounts so marked are estimates.
** Estimated yields are approx 40% sawlogs and 60% biomass.
Note 1. FS cost of these three LNF projects does not include contract prep and administration.
Note 2. Seven "Other" LNF fuelbreaks, primarily hand thin, pile, and burn, are included in the Butt Creek totals.