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Letting wildfires burn : modeling the change in future suppression costs as the result of a suppress versus a let-burn management choice

Creator:

Houtman, Rachel M.

Abstract:

Wildfire management policy over the past century, which attempts to exclude fire from fire-adapted ecosystems, has led to a build-up of fuels across the western United States. As a result, current wildfires contain larger areas of high severity, high intensity burns than seen prior to the policy implementation. There are...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

for naming the Oregon Centennial Wildfire Simulator. The leg-work required to estimate timber