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Filtering by: Funding statement This research was supported by the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (joint venture agreement 09-JV-11221636–307) and by a National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing award for Computational Sustainability (grant 083278).

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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USDA Forest Service were reimbursed under the Forest Fires Emergency Act of 1908 and, hence, there was

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