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Article: Wildfire management in the United States: the evolution of a policy failure.
- Article from:
- The Review of Policy Research
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
- Author:
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Introduction
Wildland fires pose severe threats to many ecosystems and communities in America today. Wildfires are capable of burning millions of acres of land in a single year, thereby causing damage on a regional scale. For example, the wildfires of 2000 burned an estimated 8.4 million acres of land in the United States. The wildfire crisis in America was created by a longstanding policy failure. For more than nine decades, the central goal of American wildfire policy was to protect natural resources and human communities from damages caused by wildfires (such as losses of timber and homes). Yet the consequences of this wildfire policy greatly increased the ...
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