Wildfire, timber salvage, and the economics of expediency

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 312-322

  Prestemon, Jeffrey P ^a   Wear, David N ^a   Stewart, Fred J ^a   Holmes, Thomas P ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophe; Lawsuit; Legal challenge; Stumpage; Timber market; Timber salvage; Welfare; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHE; LAWSUIT; LEGAL CHALLENGE; TIMBER MARKET; TIMBER SALVAGE; WELFARE; WILDFIRE;

COSTS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PLANNING; PUBLIC POLICY; SALVAGING; TIMBER;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FORESTS; SALVAGE; STUMPAGE;

EID: 33645974538     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2004.07.003     Document Type: Article

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