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... . These rising suppression costs consume more of the agencies' budgets and frequently cause funding for preemptive fire and forest management activities, such as prescribed burning and forest thinning, to be diverted to emergency firefighting efforts (WFLC, 2010)
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... DATA SOURCES: NICC, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. Costs  $2,500,000,000  $2,000,000,000  $1,500,000,000 Costs  $1,000,000,000  $500,000,000  $‐ 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 FIGURE 1-2  Federal firefighting costs (suppression only)
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... With extensive wildland–urban interfaces, the United States is particularly exposed to the financial risks of managing wildland fire relative to the rest of the world. Although federal agencies -- and their state and local counterparts -- make significant efforts to coordinate their activities, leverage resources, and define future priorities through interagency mechanisms such as the Joint Fire Science Program, the National Cohesive Strategy for Wildland Fire Management, and the National Interagency Fire Center, these institutions nonetheless struggle to collectively address managing fires in wildland areas and to develop strategies for making landscapes resilient to wildland fire over the long term.
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... The views contained in the proceedings are those of individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.


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