Abstract
About 80 percent of Montana's 9 million acres of fire-adapted forests rate high/moderate for fire hazard. A strategic hazard reduction scenario was evaluated based on treating 1 percent of these stands annually for 30 years. The proposed comprehensive treatment regime moved 90 percent of potentially treatable acres to a low hazard rating and yielded an average return of $624 per acre treated. Further analysis of this "1 percent scenario" showed that it would generate nearly 100 mil lion ft. 3 of timber annually, along with 3,000 private sector jobs, and $ 40 million in revenue to Montana landowners.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 21-25 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Forest Products Journal |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 7-8 |
| State | Published - Jul 2004 |