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Western Wildfires: A Policy Change Perspective

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My research objective in this article is to analyze policy change affecting wildfire suppression programs administered by the United States Forest Service and the United States Department of the Interior. Using a variant of the punctuated equilibrium approach, a content analysis of New York Times stories dealing with wildfires over the past two decades was examined in relation to both administrative and legislative policy changes. I conclude by suggesting that administrative shifts were undertaken by federal land administrators in response to crises and media attention to protect decisional autonomy as well as forest resources, while the architect of legislative change was a president taking advantage of the combined effects of increasingly intense wildfire seasons, demographic shifts involving the movement of people and structures to the high‐risk wildland urban interface areas, greater media scrutiny, and pressure to act from wildfire weary constituencies.

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  • Charles Davis, 2006. "Western Wildfires: A Policy Change Perspective," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 23(1), pages 115-127, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:23:y:2006:i:1:p:115-127
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00188.x
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    1. Sotirov, Metodi & Memmler, Michael, 2012. "The Advocacy Coalition Framework in natural resource policy studies — Recent experiences and further prospects," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 16(C), pages 51-64.
    2. David Mattson & Susan Clark, 2012. "The discourses of incidents: cougars on Mt. Elden and in Sabino Canyon, Arizona," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 45(4), pages 315-343, December.

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