... for the prescribed burning program was not statistically different from Montana residents. Conventionally calculated, protest rates for the mechanical fuels reduction program are higher for Montana’s residents than Native Americans. Results from bivariate probit with sample selection models indicate...

...John B. Loomis; Hung Trong Le; Armando Gonzales-Caban The equivalency of willingness to pay between the states of California, Florida and Montana is tested. Residents in California, Florida and Montana have an average willingness to pay of $417, $305, and $382 for prescribed burning program...

... approach to estimate a net willingness to pay (WTP of gainers minus WTA of losers) for a non-rejectable mixed public-good/public-bad. We illustrate the models using data on valuation of prescribed burning of underbrush in forests, which reduces the risk of catastrophic wildfires but produces smoke...