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Wildfire in Utah: The Physical and Economic Consequences of Wildfire
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Wildfire in Utah: The Physical and Economic Consequences of Wildfire |
| Creator | Jakus, Paul Mark Kim, Man-Keun Martin, Randy S. Hammond, Ian Hammill, Edd Mesner, Nancy O. Stout, Jacob |
| Description | PRELUDE On June 26, 2012 a lightning strike ignited a wildfire in the Manti-La Sal National Forest of central Utah’s Carbon and Emery counties (Figure P.1). By the time the Seeley wildfire was contained three weeks later, some 48,000 acres of federal, state, and private land had been burned and $8.7 million in suppression costs expended (Styler 2012). According to the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS.gov) project, nearly one-third of the acreage was severely burned, damaging... |
| Date | 2017-02-10T08:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1002 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wats_facpub/article/2015/viewcontent/Wildfire_in_Utah_Full_Report_2_10_17.pdf |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Utah State University |
| Subject | wildfire utah physical economic consequences Agricultural and Resource Economics Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental Sciences Natural Resource Economics |
