Sentences with phrase «vesting wildfire suppression»

Thus, there is an economic justification for vesting wildfire suppression responsibilities in large - scale public agencies that can overcome these coordination costs.

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«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.

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.

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

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

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.