From the ashes : reducing the harmful effects and rising costs of Western wildfires / written by Jonathan Oppenheimer ; edited by Ralph De Gennaro, Keith Ashdown, and Christopher Burley.
Material type: TextPublication details: Washington : Taxpayers for Common Sense, c2000Description: 36 p. : ill., mapISBN:- 1888415150 (pbk)
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"A report by Taxpayers for Common Sense"--Cover
Cover title
December 2000
Spiral bound
Includes bibliography (p. 31-32)
Ch. I. Limits of firefighting -- ch. II. Costs of firefighting -- ch. III. Wildfire risks from commercial logging -- ch. IV. Budget process and wildfire -- ch. V. Homes and firefighting costs
The 2000 wildfire season was one of the most severe the United States has seen in decades and the most costly ever. To battle these blazes, federal taxpayers spent more than $1 billion and more than 27,000 firefighters put their lives on the line. Hundreds of families lost their homes, and business dependent upon tourism lost hundreds of millions of dollars
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