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

29. MyFTP - Applications  Fireshed process  Mechanical fuels treatment course  Individual fuel treatment projects

30. 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 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”.

31. Questions?