2400 - TIMBER MANAGEMENT
R1 SUPPLEMENT 333 EFFECTIVE 09/06/91
CHAPTER 2420 - TIMBER APPRAISAL
2421 - APPRAISAL THEORY. Transaction evidence appraisal procedures shall be used to
appraise timber sales of $2,000 or greater in value.
To determine damages for timber trespass occurances when the volumes are greater than 5 MBF
use the most appropriate appraisal procedure or combination of appraisal procedure as described
in FSH 2409.22, sec. 70.2, R-1 Timber Appraisal Handbook.
To determine damages for timber trespass occurances having volumes of 5 MBF or less use the
appraisal procedures described in FSH 6509.11H, Service-Wide Claims Management Handbook.
2422 - APPRAISAL COMPONENTS
2422.41 - Logging. Timber purchasers shall be required to do as much of the slash disposal and
treatment work as is reasonable and practical prior to sale completion. It is reasonable and
practical to have the purchaser perform any work that can be done with the manpower and
equipment normally available to logging or road building operations.
Slash disposal or treatment actions considered normal for a purchaser to perform include the
following:
1. Snag felling.
2.
Fireline and fuel and firebreak construction - hand or machine.
3. Piling (including covering where needed), windrowing, yarding, or bunching of slash in
preparation for burning.
4. Burying.
5. Removal.
6. Bucking or lopping and limbing.
7. Slashing of residuals (in clearcuts).
8. Removal of slash or clearing of streamcourses.
9. Total job including burning, where necessary, on road construction and reconstruction.
10. YUM yarding
11. Burning dozer piles, hand piles, or other slash under an approved burn plan.
12. Burning road right-of-way slash.
Forest Service will normally perform or direct and administer any burning of logging slash with
deposited funds required under the Brush Disposal Act.
Forest Service may require the purchaser to perform some burning to treat logging slash, or to
furnish crews and equipment. Advance agreement should be reached on wages and rental rates.
2424.1 - Rate Redetermination Appraisals.
On November 16, 1988, the Transaction Evidence (TE) appraisal system became the standard
method for appraising all new timber sales in Region 1, however the Residual Value appraisal
system will be maintained primarily for rate redetermination purposes.
The standard method of appraisal for rate redeterminations will be the method (RV or TE) used
when the sale was sold.
2424.23 - Rate Redeterminations After Catastrophic Damage.
For Rate Redeterminations of timber damaged by Catastrophe in sales with TE appraisals where
the 2400-6 contract refers to 'Conversion return equivalent to normal profit', use 15 percent of
the sale average lumber selling value adjusted by the Western Wood Products Association index
adjustment factor.