Prescribed burning costs and the WUI: Economic effects in the Pacific Northwest

Western Journal of Applied Forestry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 72-78

  Berry, Alison H ^a   Donovan, Geoffrey ^b   Hesseln, Hayley ^c  

^a Property and Environment Research Center   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost structure; Economics; Prescribed burning; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; FUELS; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COST STRUCTURE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33646170013     PISSN: 08856095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wjaf/21.2.72     Document Type: Article

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