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Author(s):
United States Department of Agriculture
Year Published:

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Topic(s):
Fire & Economics

NRFSN number: 13425
Record updated:

Over 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt established the U.S. Forest Service to manage America’s 193-million acre national forests and grasslands for the benefit of all Americans. Today, that mission is being consumed by the ever-increasing costs of fighting fires.

This report documents the growth over the past 20 years of the portion of the Forest Service’s budget that is dedicated to fire, and the debilitating impact those rising costs are having on the recreation, restoration, planning, and other activities of the Forest Service.

Citation

United States Department of Agriculture. 2015. The rising cost of wildfire operations: effects on the Forest Service's non-fire work. USFS 2015 Fire Report. 16 p.