The demand for a user-friendly tool for calculating the costs of alternative logging practices (e.g. conventional logging and reduced impact logging) and systems appears to be increasing. Since the release of the second version of RILSIM (Reduced-Impact Logging SIMulator) in October 2004, the software has been downloaded more than 400 times. Hundreds of copies of the software and the user's guide have also been distributed by mail.
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