COSTS OF FORESTRY PRACTICES IN THE SOUTH, 2012
FOREST LANDOWNER SURVEY
Some Suggestions for Respondents
Please be as accurate as possible in completing the survey, but it is not necessary to
undertake special studies in order to do so. If your records don't readily yield the information we
are seeking, just give us the best estimates you can provide. Individual errors in making such
estimates will tend to be overcome when we average all of the replies together.
When completing the survey be sure to include your cost associated with a vendor operation
in the appropriate place. If you have vendor and company operations for the same practice, please
use separate entries for each. Government agencies and consultants should use the vendor fee
category only when they use a subcontractor to perform a practice.
No doubt many of you will wish to delegate responsibility for completing the survey to two
or more district headquarters under your supervision with the thought of formulating a single
response from your organization. We would prefer that you use separate copies of the survey for
each district so that we might use each of them as an individual response in order to strengthen our
sample. If you need additional surveys, we will be happy to furnish them for each district, or if you
wish you may make copies to use. In addition the link below provides access to a Word file or
Excel spread sheet of the survey.
http://www.aces.edu/forestry/economics/
Click on the links for “Full Survey 2012 Word File” or “Full Survey 2012 Excel File”
to access the documents
Please e-mail or US Mail completed forms: Rebecca J. Barlow
School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
Auburn University, AL 36849-5418
Phone: 334-844-1019
FAX: 334-844-1084
becky.barlow@auburn.edu
Please return your completed survey by March 15, 2013
Thank you for your willingness to help with this important survey!
Using the map below please indicate, by circling the proper number, the physiographic
region to which your response is primarily applicable. Also, select, by circling the proper number,
the type of organization and operations that most closely typifies your own.
Primary Physiographic Region
(Circle One)
1.
Southern Coastal Plain (includes the area south of the Savannah River and below the fall
line in Georgia plus all of Florida and similar physiographic areas along the Gulf Coast,
through Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas).
2.
Northern Coastal Plain (includes the area north of the Savannah River and east of the fall
line).
3.
Piedmont and similar upland (includes the area north of the fall line and the mountains plus
the rolling upland areas of Alabama and Tennessee, westward through Arkansas).
Organization Type
(Circle One)
1.
Publicly-funded organization operating and/or administering practices primarily on publiclyowned lands.
2.
Publicly-funded organization operating and/or administering practices primarily on
nonindustrial private lands.
3.
Consulting firm operating and/or administering practices primarily on nonindustrial private
lands.
4.
Private forestry firm operating and/or administering practices primarily on nonindustrial
private lands.
5.
Private forestry firm operating and/or administering practices primarily on firm's own land.
PLANTING
Please use separate entries if you had multiple types of planting or if you had vendor operations and company operations.
Average Cost Per Acre
Method
of
Planting
Code
for
Land
Type
Total
Acres
# of
Tracts
Code for
Intensive
Site Prep
if
applicable
Seedlings
Species
Type
Bareroot (B)
or Container
(C)
#
Planted
Per
Acre
Cost
$/1000
Crew
Type
Code
Your
Labor
Your
Equipment
Your
Supervision
Your
Overhead
Vendor or
Contractor
Fee if
applicable
Hand
Planted
Machine
Planted
Land Type Code
0 – Cutover Land
1 – Oldfield
Site Prep Codes
0 – No site prep
6 – Shear, rake, pile, & disk
1 – Single chop
7 – 3-in-1 plow
2 – Chop & bed
8 – Subsoil
3 – Shear, rake, & pile
9 – Chemical site prep
4 – Shear only
10 – Other (please specify)
5 – Shear, rake, pile, & bed
Seedling Species Code
0 – Loblolly pine
1 – Slash pine
2 – Longleaf pine
3 – Oak
4 – Ash
5 – Other (please specify)
Comments:
Crew Type Codes
C – Company crew
V – Vendor operation (contractor)
Seedling Type Code
B – Bareroot
C – Container
Total Cost
Per Acre
(Do not
include
seedling
cost)
MECHANICAL SITE PREPARATION
Please use separate entries if you had multiple types of mechanical site preparation operations or if you had vendor operations and company
operations.
Average Cost Per Acre
Code for Type
of Site Prep
Number of Passes
Across the Tract by
Machines
Total
Acres
# of Tracts
Site Prep Codes
1 – Single chop
6 – Shear, rake, pile, & disk
2 – Chop & bed
7 – 3-in-1 plow
3 – Shear, rake, & pile
8 – Subsoil
4 – Shear only
9 – Other (please specify)
5 – Shear, rake, pile, & bed
Comments:
Crew Type
Code
Your
Labor
Your
Equipment
Crew Type Codes
C – Company crew
V – Vendor operation (contractor)
Your
Supervision
Your
Overhead
Vendor/ Contractor
Fee if applicable
Total Cost
Per Acre
PRESCRIBED BURNING
Please use separate entries if you had multiple types of burning or if you had vendor operations and company operations.
Average Cost Per Acre
Code for
Purpose
Code for Type of
Ignition
Total
Acres
# of
Tracts
Crew Type Code
Your
Labor
Purpose Codes
1 – Burning after chemical site prep
5 – Mid-rotation hardwood control and
2 – Burning after chopping
hazard reduction
3 – Burning after shearing only
6 – Site prep for natural regeneration
4 – Burning piles or windrows
7 – Other (please specify)
Ignition Type Codes
1 – Ground drip torch
2 – Aerial drip torch
3 – Ping pong balls
4 – Other (please specify)
Comments:
Crew Type Codes
C – Company crew
V – Vendor operation (contractor)
Your
Equipment
Your
Supervision
Your
Overhead
Vendor/ Contractor
Fee if applicable
Total Cost
Per Acre
CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS
Please use separate entries if you had multiple types of chemical applications or if you had vendor operations and company operations.
Average Cost Per Acre
Purpose
Code
Application
Code
Total
acres
# of
Tracts
Purpose Code
1 – Chemical site prep
2 – Herbaceous weed control
3 – Early release
4 – Mid-Rotation release
Application Codes
1 – Aerial
2 – Ground machine (band)
3 – Ground machine (broadcast)
4 – Backpack
5 – Soil spots
6 – Basal spray
7 – Stem injection
8 – Other (please specify)
Comments:
Chemical
Code
Tank mix
(Y/N)
Crew
Type
Code
Your
Labor
Your
Equipment
Your
Supervision
Your
Overhead
Chemical Cost
Only If Not
Included in Vendor/
Contractor Fee
Chemical Codes
1 – AATrex 4L (atrazine)
12 – Oust (sulfometuron)
2 – Accord Concentrate (gylphosate)
13 – Oustar (sulfometuron + hexazinone)
3 – Arsenal AC (imazapyr)
14 – Pronone 10G (hexazinone)
4 – Escort (metsulfuron)
15 – Transline (clopyralid)
5 – Chopper (imazapyr)
16 - Tordon 22K (picloram)
6 – Clearcast (imazamox)
17 – Vanquish (dicamba)
7 – Garlon 3A (triclopyr)
18 – Velpar L (hexazinone)
8 – Glyphosate (glyphosate)
19 – Velpar ULW (hexazinone)
9 – Goal (oxyflourfen)
20 – Weedone 650 (2,4 D)
10 – MSMA (MSMA)
21 – Other (please specify)
11 – One Step (Glyphosate + Imazapyr)
Crew Type Codes
C – Company crew
V – Vendor operation (contractor)
Vendor/
Contractor
Fee If
Applicable
Total
Cost
Per
Acre
FERTILIZATION
Please use separate entries if you had multiple types of fertilization operations or if you had vendor operations and company operations.
Average Cost Per Acre
Timing of
Fertilization
Code
Method of
Application
Code
Timing Codes
1 – During plantation
establishment
2 – Catch-up fertilization
3 – Established stand
fertilization
Type of
Fertilizer
Code
Total
Acres
# of
Tracts
Crew
Type
Code
Your
Labor
Your
Equipment
Type of Fertilizer Codes
1 – Ordinary superphosphate (OSP)
7 – Urea
2 – Triple superphosphate (TSP)
8 – N (please specify %)
3 – Rock phosphate (RSP)
9 – P (please specify %)
4 – Diammonium phosphate (DAP)
10 – N + P (please specify %)
5 – DAP + Urea
11 – Other (please specify)
6 – DAP + P
Method Codes
1 – Aerial, helicopter
2 – Aerial, fixed wing
3 – Ground, broadcast
4 – Band/spot
Comments:
Rate of
Application
(#/acre)
Crew Type Codes
C – Company crew
V – Vendor operation (contractor)
Your
Supervision
Your
Overhead
Fertilizer Cost
Only If Not
Included in
Vendor/
Contractor Fee
Vendor/
Contractor Fee
if applicable
Total Cost
Per Acre
GENERAL FIRE PROTECTION
Average Cost Per Acre
Number of
Acres
Protected
List Codes for All
Tractor (Dozer)
Attachments
Helicopter Used in
Suppression (Y/N)
A Type Codes
1 – Rear plow
2 – Front plow
3 – Front V-blade
4 – Front straight blade
5 – Water tank mounted on tractor
6 – Other (please specify)
Comments:
Code for Primary
Method of Fire
Detection
Your
Labor
Method of Detection Codes
1– Aerial
2 – Fire tower
3 – Ground
4 – Aerial & tower
5 – Aerial & ground
6 – Aerial, tower, & ground
7 – Phone Reports
8 – Other (please specify)
Your Equipment
Your Supervision
Your Overhead
Vendor/ Contractor
Fee if Applicable
Total Cost
Per Acre
TIMBER CRUISING
Please use separate entries if you had multiple types of timber cruising operations or if you had vendor operations and company operations.
Average Cost Per Acre
Code for Purpose
Code for Cruise
Method
Purpose Codes
1 – Inventory/reconnaissance
2 – Timber-timberland sale/acquisition
3 – Appraisal
4 – Both 1 & 2
5 – Other (please specify)
Cruise
Intensity (code
or specify)
# of
Tracts
Crew Type
Code
Your Labor
Your
Equipment
Cruise Intensity Codes
1 – 1%
2 – 5%
3 – 10%
4 – 20%
5 – 100%
6 – Other (please specify)
Cruise Method Codes
1 – Variable radius, 10 BAF
2 – Variable radius, 20 BAF
3 – Fixed radius, 1/10 acre
4 – Fixed radius, 1/5 acre
5 – Fixed radius, 1/20 acre
6 – 1 chain strip
7 – Other (please specify)
Comments:
Total
Acres
Crew Type Codes
C – Company crew
V – Vendor operation (contractor)
Your
Supervision
Your
Overhead
Vendor/
Contractor Fee
If Applicable
Total
Cost Per
Acre
TIMBER MARKING
Please use separate entries if you had multiple types of timber marking operations or if you had vendor operations and company operations.
Average Cost Per Acre
Code for
Purpose
Code for Primary
Product Marked
Timber Marking Purpose Codes
1 – Seedtree or regeneration cuts
2 – Thinning plantation
3 – Thinning natural stand
4 – Poles
5 – Other (please specify)
Total Acres
# of Tracts
Crew Type
Code
Crew Type Codes
C – Company crew
V – Vendor operation (contractor)
Primary Product Codes
1 – Pulpwood
2 – Chip-n-saw
3 – Sawlogs/peelers
4 – Treelength (sawlogs and/or pulpwood combined)
5 – Multiple products on same pass
6 – Poles
7 – Other (please specify)
Comments:
Your Labor
Your Equipment
Your
Supervision
Your
Over-head
Vendor/ Contractor
Fee If Applicable
Total
Cost Per
Acre
PRECOMMERCIAL THINNING
Please use separate entries if you had multiple types of precommercial thinning operations or if you had vendor operations and company
operations.
Code for Method
Total Acres
Method Codes
1 – Rolling Chop
2 – Chop & saw
3 – Chainsaw
4 – Backpack bushwacker saw
5 – Chemical injection
6 – Other (please specify)
Comments:
# of Tracts
Crew Type
Code
Your Labor
Your
Equipment
Crew Type Codes
C – Company crew
V – Vendor operation (contractor)
Average Cost Per Acre
Your
Supervision
Your Overhead
Vendor/ Contractor
Fee If Applicable
Total Cost Per
Acre
CUSTODIAL MANAGMENT
Management costs may include, but are not limited to, costs for maintaining property boundaries, road construction and maintenance, insect and
disease detection and treatment, legal fees, and general supervision. Do not include fire protection or property tax costs.
Average Cost Per Acre
Total Managed Acres
Comments:
Labor
Equipment
Supervision
Overhead
Total Cost Per Acre
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