Abstract:
Quick-Silver is a program for economic analysis of long-term, on-the-ground resource management projects. It provides a consistent benefit/cost framework to determine if one management action costs less or has a better payoff than others. Quick-Silver standardizes economic analyses by creating and sharing standard project files containing one or more management alternatives for comparison. It uses
... a set of default management activities defined by the user.
Quick-Silver calculates economic criteria such as present net value, benefit/cost ratio, annual equivalent value, and internal rate of return. Projects with multiple investment partners or participants can be analyzed. Printed reports show cash flow details, economic returns, and summaries of costs and benefits that make up project alternatives.
Some typical Quick-Silver applications are:
- Comparison of forest management treatments
- Valuation of benefits or losses
- Recreation developments and business plans
- Evaluation of access and road strategies
- Analysis of grazing and range alternatives, and
- Assessment of habitat improvements.
[Summary provided by the USDA Forest Service.] 
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