Economic Impact Analysis

IMPLAN

Under a site license from the Minnesota Implan Group Inc. the US Forest Service uses a database and modeling system dubbed IMPLAN (IMpact analysis for PLANning) to carry out regional economic studies of the consequences of Agency decisions and proposed actions. Some typical applications of regional economic analysis are:

• Affected environment analysis
• Community diversity and dependency analysis
• Rural development
• Forest planning
• Strategic planning
• Policy analysis

World Wide Web users may acquire additional information about IMPLAN by contacting:

• Susan Winter at swinter@fs.fed.us or 970-295-5726
• Doug Smith at dhsmith@fs.fed.us or 509-684-7182
• The Minnesota IMPLAN Group website

More information is available for Forest Service users on our intranet (http://fsweb.wo.fs.fed.us/economics/).