• Introduction
  
  
• Initial Equipment Demonstration
  
  
• Interim Equipment-Related Developments
  
  
• Cimarron National Grassland Time and Motion Study
  
  
• Phase 1—Mechanical Treatments
  
  
• Phase 2—Chemical Treatments
  
  
• Treatment Cost Comparison
  
  
• Estimated Mechanical Treatment Cost Per Acre
  
  
• Estimated Chemical Treatment Cost Per Acre
  
  
• Discussion
  
  
• Conclusions
  
  
• About the Authors and Additional Information

The Missoula Technology and Development Center (MTDC) would like to thank Randall Parker and James McBreen from the White River National Forest for proposing this project. MTDC also thanks Andrew Chappell and Nancy Brewer (authors), Joe Hartman (district ranger), and Tim Higgins (heavy equipment operator) at the Cimarron National Grassland. The Cimarron National Grassland staff designed the time and motion study, installed the study, collected the raw data, reduced the data, wrote several interim reports, and helped write this project record. MTDC would like also to thank John Lyddon, owner of Starhill Solutions, Inc. (http://www.starhilljawz.com), who traveled to Elkhart, KS, to teach equipment operators how to efficiently use the JAWZ, a grabbing attachment for skid steers. Lyddon also helped the Forest Service obtain an equipment adapter plate so the JAWZ could be mounted on a compact excavator.