Analyzing trade-offs between fuels management, suppression, and damages from wildfire

D. Evan Mercer; Robert G. Haight; Jeffrey P. Prestemon

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Analyzing trade-offs between fuels management, suppression, and damages from wildfire

Informally Refereed

Authors:

D. Evan Mercer, Robert G. Haight, Jeffrey P. Prestemon

Year:

2008

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Holmes, Thomas P.; Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Abt, Karen L., eds. The Economics of Forest Disturbance: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species: Springer Science. 247-272.

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Abstract

With expenditures to suppress wildfires in the United States increasing rapidly during the past couple of decades, fire managers, scientists, and policy makers have begun an intense effort to develop alternative approaches to managing wildfire.

Citation

Mercer, D. Evan; Haight, Robert G.; Prestemon, Jeffrey P. 2008. Analyzing trade-offs between fuels management, suppression, and damages from wildfire. In: Holmes, Thomas P.; Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Abt, Karen L., eds. The Economics of Forest Disturbance: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species: Springer Science. 247-272.