Headwaters Economics

Featured Research:

The Rising Cost of Wildfire Protection:  Wildfires are becoming more severe and expensive.  This report describes how the protection of homes in the Wildland-Urban Interface has added to these costs and concludes with a brief discussion of solutions that may help control escalating costs. –

Protected Federal Lands in Non-Metro West Increase Per Capita Income:  Headwaters Economics has created an interactive map that shows the amount of per capita income explained by protected federal lands for each county in the non-metropolitan western U.S. –

County Payments Research:  This post summarizes our research on county payments, including a single payment proposal to combine SRS, revenue sharing, and PILT; recent testimony before the U.S. Senate; and  interactive maps that show commercial activities on National Forests –

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