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Allowing a wildfire to burn: estimating the effect on future fire suppression costs

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Houtman, Rachel M., Montgomery, Claire A., Gagnon, Aaron R., Calkin, David E., Dietterich, Thomas G., McGregor, Sean, and Crowley, Mark

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Where a legacy of aggressive wildland fire suppression has left forests in need of fuel reduction, allowing wildland fire to burn may provide fuel treatment benefits, thereby reducing suppression costs from subsequent fires. The least-cost-plus-net-value-change model of wildland fire economics includes benefits of wildfire in a framework for evaluating suppression...

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suppression costs Rachel M. HoutmanA,D, Claire A. MontgomeryA, Aaron R. GagnonA, David E. CalkinB, Thomas G