Sentences with phrase «of wildfire suppression»

Anniversary coverage was much more likely to bring up policy problems connected to the systemic causes of human vulnerability to wildfire hazards — development in the wildland - urban interface, legacies of wildfire suppression and climate change, to name a few examples.

After a century of wildfire suppression across the American West, many forests have grown unnaturally dense.

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About 2 percent of all fires consume more than 90 percent of the overall wildfire suppression budget.

«I don't think anybody doubts that the cost of fighting fires has gone up,» said Debbie Miley, executive director of the National Wildfire Suppression Association (NWSA), a trade group for private wildfire fWildfire Suppression Association (NWSA), a trade group for private wildfire fwildfire fighters.

But wildland fires are increasingly destructive and costly in terms of lives and property, requiring substantial investments in wildfire suppression.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles County will have two Bombardier CL - 415 Superscooper fire - fighting aircraft on loan from the government of Quebec starting in the fall for wildfire suppression, as well as the county's own fleet of helicopters.

The U.S. Forest Service announced yesterday that it has contracted for seven new «next generation» air tankers for wildfire suppression, part of the service's ongoing efforts to replace its current, aging fleet.

«Over the past few decades, wildfire suppression costs have increased as fire seasons have grown longer and the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires has increased,» Jones said.

The NIFC calculates that nearly 39,000 homes — more than 3,000 per year — were lost to wildfires from 2000 - 2012 and that federal, state and local agencies spent an average of $ 4.7 billion annually during that period on WUI fire suppression.

Meanwhile, funding for the Office of Natural Resources Revenue will be sustained, the budget notes, and wildfire suppression costs, estimated based on a «10 - year rolling average,» will be met in full.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

Here are some hypotheses or guesses: increased public recognition of the danger of wildfires, increased suppression, or another possibility is that as more people are fragmenting the landscape, you have a decrease in the overall size of fire events.

Stand condition is particularly important on state and federal forests where a policy of fire suppression for the last 100 yr has increased tree density and the risk of mortality from defoliating and boring insects, and from wildfire.

There are other factors that are favoring more and bigger wildfires, such as the decades of active fire suppression that have created dense forests with ample fuel, making fires more difficult to control.

Dramatic images of out - of - control wildfires in western North American forests have appeared on our television and computer screens with increasing regularity in recent decades, while costs of fire suppression have soared.

August 28, 2015 • The agency says it's now spending record amounts on fire suppression, and these bills are coming at the expense of its other programs — many of which would help prevent future wildfires.

None of the funding proposals currently on the table would alter the incentive structure that public agencies face when it comes to wildfire suppression.

The optimal level of fire suppression happens when an additional dollar of spending on suppression avoids at least a dollar of wildfire damages.

Public agencies, therefore, are well positioned to realize economies of scale and specialize when it comes to wildfire prevention and suppression.

Similarly, firefighters do not directly bear suppression costs, so public wildfire agencies have weaker incentives to be discerning about the efficient allocation of resources than would a private landowner.

The 2015 drought conditions and lack of snowpack led to a historically severe wildfire season with more than 1.6 million acres burned across Oregon and Washington, resulting in more than $ 560 million in fire suppression costs.

Ignoring a well - documented history of natural climate change, ignoring the ill - advised 20th century policy of fire suppression, and ignoring the increased percentage (~ 80 to 90 %) of fires ignited by humans, Climate Central tried to persuade the public that California fires, (as well as all recent fires) are «part of a dire global warming - fueled trend toward larger, more frequent and intense wildfires.»

-- The second, being the observed change of some trees» CO2 - enhanced growth storing more carbon in their standing wood, is of very limited potential and is not rising at anywhere near the rate of the countervailing increase since 1980 of the impacts on forests of droughts, heat waves and surface ozone concentrations in terms of growth - suppression and of pests, ailments, dieback and rising frequency, duration and intensity of wildfires.

«Wildfire occurrence statewide could increase several folds by the end of the century, increasing fire suppression and emergency response costs and damage to property.»

Wildfire could increase on landscapes where a century of fire suppression has caused an unnatural buildup of fuels, such as in North and South America, Europe, southern Africa, and Australia, causing a pulse of carbon emissions.

But there's also the minor matter of people building homes in wildfire - susceptible forests, overgrown with vegetation due to decades of fire suppression.

In a statement, Jennifer Jones, a spokesperson for the Forest Service said fire suppression has become more difficult due to a number of factors including the need to protect the increasing number of homes in wildfire areas, hazardous fuel buildups, drought and longer fire seasons.

More than 80 wildfires burning across almost 1.5 million acres in nine western U.S. states; this year, the U.S. Forest Service has already spent about $ 1.75 billion on fire suppression and the Department of Interior has spent an additional $ 400 million.

«Climate change is causing fire seasons to start earlier and finish later, with an associated trend towards more extreme wildfire events in terms of their geographic extent and duration, intensity, severity, associated suppression costs, and loss of life and property,» the scientists write.

This lack of evidence that Firewise reduces wildfire suppression costs suggests that policy makers attempting to address future costs are better served focusing on other solutions such as limiting future development in high risk areas.

Our research finds no evidence of a relationship between wildfire suppression costs and Firewise participation.

State - specific research on the impact of new homes and temperature change on wildfire suppression costs.

Dramatic images of out - of - control wildfires in western North American forests have appeared on our television and computer screens with increasing regularity in recent decades, while costs of fire suppression have soared.

may not be flown or otherwise removed from the United States unless dispatched by the National Interagency Fire Center in support of an international agreement to assist in wildfire suppression efforts or for other purposes approved by the Secretary of Agriculture in writing in advance.