Over the past decade, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of large and intensive wildland fires. As a result of the increased number, size and intensity of these fires, there has been a significant increase in the amount of money and resources spent to combat and suppress them as well as the economic and ecological impact of such severe and large-scale damage on the communities and environments that they impact. Not counting resources from state and local governments as well as private and nonprofit organizations, the Federal government alone spent over $2 billion in 2000 on activities to respond to and suppress wildland fires.
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