Lankoande, Mariam; Yoder, Jonathan - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2006
We estimate a model of suppression productivity for individual fires, where suppression productivity is measured in … dollar increase in suppression costs reduces resource damage by 12 cents, while each dollar invested in pre-suppression … reduces suppression expenditures by 3.76 dollars. These results suggest that there is an over-allocation of fire management …