Reports

Report to the Washington State Legislature

The Washington Log Trucking Industry:
Costs and Safety Analysis

August 2008

The Rural Technology Initiative, University of Washington
and
The Transportation Research Group, Washington State University

(C. Larry Mason, Kenneth L. Casavant, Bruce R. Lippke,
Diem K. Nguyen, and Eric Jessup)

2003
Activity
Report

• RTI Activity Report for 2003: This report reviews the 2003 activities of the Rural Technology Initiative, a cooperative program by UW and WSU Extension.
  
  
• RTI Executive Summary for 2003: This is a summary of the Activity Report for 2003.

Review of the Rural Technology Initiative

By the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture

September 2003

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After two years of research, the final report for fire risk reduction through fuel removal is finished. With the link above you can read it on-line. With the following links you can open the PDF version of this report, or the PDF version of this report's Appendices.

• Read the University of Washington press release titled:
  Without thinning the worst is yet to come for fire-prone forest
  
  
• View the related video presentation:
  • For dial-up modems (greater than 33 kbps), click here.
  • For high-speed connections with the Internet, click here.

Working Paper: Economic Impacts of the Forests and Fish Rules on Small, NIPF Landowners (Ten Western Washington Case Studies). Revise in July 2003 by Kevin Zobrist.

The purpose of this study is to examine the economic impacts of Washington's FFR on small forest landowners through a series of case studies. The preliminary results of three Western Washington case studies have been presented in Zobrist and Lippke (2003). This paper presents the final results of these three case studies and seven additional Western Washington case studies. A companion study for Eastern Washington is also available (Oneil 2003).

"The Research University and the Future of Our State"
Annual Report 2002

The article, Digital Forest, ties the work of RTI with the small forest landowner using a specific example from Eastern Washington. Check it out.

Economic Impact of Alternative Forest Practice Rules to
Protect Northern Spotted Owl Sites

Provided by:
Bruce Lippke and Dick Conway & Associates

Reviewed, Revised and Published August 1994

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