General Technical Report (Classic Reprint): Int 101-108: Int 101-108 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Forest And Range Experiment Station

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0428169902 ISBN 13: 9780428169909

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Understand how fire impacts are valued for planning and budgeting.

This report provides practical methods for estimating the costs, losses, and benefits associated with wildfire or prescribed fire. It frames valuation data as a tool for fire management areas to compare plans, track results, and inform decisions. The text outlines procedures to calculate suppression costs, life and health losses, property loss, rehabilitation, and effects on timber, forage, recreation, wildlife, and water. It also explains how to convert these values into present values to compare different fire management strategies.

- Learn how to calculate average suppression costs per acre and per man-day.
- See how property loss and rehabilitation costs are estimated and totaled.
- Understand how timber, forage, recreation, wildlife, and water effects are valued and combined.
- Discover how net present values help identify the most economically efficient fire plan.

Ideal for readers involved in fire management planning, budgeting, and policy assessment, this edition supports data-driven choices and scenario comparisons.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0428169902
• ISBN 13: 9780428169909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 516