Drivers of wildfire suppression costs : literature review and annotated bibliography

dc.contributor.authorEllison, Autumn
dc.contributor.authorMoseley, Cassandra
dc.contributor.authorBixler, R. Patrick (Richard Patrick)
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-14T16:57:52Z
dc.date.available2015-08-14T16:57:52Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description40 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractOver the past century, wildland fire management has been core to the mission of federal land management agencies. In recent decades, however, federal spending on wildfire suppression has increased dramatically; suppression spending that on average accounted for less than 20 percent of the USFS’s discretionary funds prior to 2000 had grown to 43 percent of discretionary funds by 2008 (USDA 2009), and 51 percent in 2014 (USDA 2014). Rising suppression costs have created budgetary shortfalls and conflict as money “borrowed” from other budgets often cannot be paid back in full, and resources for other program areas and missions are subsumed by suppression expenditures. Significant policy making over the past 15 years has been designed, at least in part, to address these issues and temper wildfire costs. Effective political efforts and strategies to control public spending on suppression rely on a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the drivers of suppression costs and recent trends.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding for this publication was provided by the Joint Fire Sciences Program.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/19159
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherEcosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEWP working paper;no. 53
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subject.lcshWildfires--Prevention and controlen_US
dc.subject.lcshExpenditures, Publicen_US
dc.titleDrivers of wildfire suppression costs : literature review and annotated bibliographyen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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