Financial State of the Forest Industry and Delivered Wood Cost Drivers
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Appendix D
Logging Cost Definitions
Tree to truck
All costs associated with falling,
bucking, yarding and loading timber from the point immediately
after the pre-work conference to immediately before the logs are
hauled. This category does not include the costs of salaried logging
supervisors which should be included within Forest management
and engineering below.
Hauling
All costs associated with hauling logs
from the logging site to the mill log yard or an intermediate
dump site such as a rail reload point or a water dump site for
intermediate water transport by boom or barge.
Dump, sort, boom and rehaul
All costs of intermediate rail or water
transport, including log dewatering costs for intermediate water
transport but excluding log yard dumping or sorting costs.
Forest regeneration
All costs associated with bringing
a logged site back to free growing status, including site preparation,
planting, brushing and weeding, fill planting and surveys (together,
"basic silviculture"). This category does not include
"intensive" or Incremental silviculture techniques applied
to free growing stands.
Road expenses
All costs related to road and bridge
construction, maintenance and deactivation for both expensed and
capital roads, but excluding road design and layout costs and
supervision which should be included within Forest management
and engineering below.
Forest management and engineering
All costs associated with cruising,
forest planning (involvement in higher level and strategic planning
and preparation of operational plans), forest protection, supervision
of road construction and logging, road and cutblock layout, divisional
due diligence and the divisional/operation share of head office
forest management expense.
Other overhead
All remaining camp overhead, including
administrative support wages/salaries and benefits, scaling expense,
residue and waste expense, vehicle expense for logging administrative
staff, licences, fees, insurance, taxes, leases annual rent and
depreciation of administrative buildings.
