America’s Forests in the Balance: A National Emergency: A Call to Action
Editor’s Note: Michael T. Rains – a friend and colleague for several years - wrote the foreword to my book,
INSTITUTIONAL COST FACTORS: PERVERSE INCENTIVES, PRIVATE CONTRACTORS, AND COST-SHARE AGREEMENTS Congressional Blank Check for Suppression Several critics have focused on
SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL COST FACTORS: FUELS, HOMES, AND CLIMATE CHANGE Fuels Accumulation Coinciding with the rise of wildfire activity in the late
INTRODUCTION: BIG FIRES=BIGGER COSTS In 1908 a Congressional legislative rider created the Forest Fires Emergency Act that gave the
LESSONS LEARNED, LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, SUMMARY Wildfire activity has increased in the U.S. over the last 20 years,
CONTROLLING SUPPRESSION COSTS As this paper has demonstrated, there are a number of socioenvironmental, institutional, and operational factors that are
OPERATIONAL COST FACTORS: EXTERNAL PRESSURES, MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND RISK-AVERSION, WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND TACTICS Human Factors The human dimensions of
The claim that ailing western forests can heal themselves if they are left alone seems based on a belief that
Since its inception in the aftermath of the Great 1910 Fire, the nation’s forest fire-fighting policy has been closely
Next to a nuclear explosion, there is no more lethal killing force on earth than a big forest fire. The
Of all the human events that have altered the character of western forests, including a century of timber harvesting and
In northern Arizona, along the north and south rims of the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service is considering the
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