Journal
SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES
Volume 24, Issue 8, Pages 785-798Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/08941921003649482
Keywords
endogeneity; forestry; media coverage; political influence
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Controlling wildfire suppression expenditures has become a major public policy concern in the United States. However, most policy remedies have focused on the biophysical determinants of suppression costs: fuel loads and weather, for example. We show that two non-biophysical variables-newspaper coverage and political pressure-have a significant effect on wildfire suppression costs. Hausman tests showed that newspaper coverage and fire size were endogenous, so regression models were estimated using two-stage least squares. We suggest a number of non-biophysical policy remedies that may be able to reduce wildfire suppression expenditures more cost-effectively than traditional biophysical remedies such as fuel management.
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