Sentences with phrase «on wildfire suppression»

He has also served on a wildfire suppression crew in California.

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

Over the past decade, the United States has spent $ 1.7 billion on wildfire suppression, the study noted.

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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.

Since the wildfire, Suffolk County officials have been working on installing fire suppression wells in the Manorville area.

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.

Over the last decade, annual wildfire suppression costs on US federal lands exceeded $ 1.7 B US dollars7 and $ 1B US dollars in Canada8.

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.

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.

It is also true that land use and fire suppression have had particularly potent effects on forests there, with increases in fuels contributing to changes in wildfire.

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.

-- 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 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.

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.

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.

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.