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PUBLIC LAND BY THE NUMBERS
$Budget(not including wildfire suppression costs)
Staff
Forest Service Region 1
full-time employees in 2012
BLM
Forest Service Region 1
Wildfire
(Montana & Idaho): Does not include the Missoula Tech Development Cen- ter or the Missoula Fire Lab
$80 million
Acreage
Note that this does not include lands managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service or Department of Defense. This likely adds another 1.5 million to 1.8 million acres to the total
19.1 million acres
of Forest Service land in Montana
1,570
Approximately
Suppression Costs
$152 million
inFY14
(nationwide)
BLM (Montana & Dakotas)
Note that these figures are only for suppression and do not include hazardous fuels reduction programs. Hazardous fuels reduction adds an additional $300-$500 million
$1.7 billion
in 2013
$1.9 billion
in 2012
$1.7 billion
in 2011
inFY14
(Montana & Dakotas)
571
employees as of April 2014 with
66 vacancies
8.3
47.2
Montana’s outdoor recreation economy
million
million
Number of fires/acres
supports 64,000 jobs $5.8 billion in spending
Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT)
1,723 fires/124,029 acres
2012
2,213 fires/1.2 million acres
1,335 fires/168,010 acres
surface acres
of BLM land in Montana
subsurface acres of BLM land in Montana
burned in Montana
& Secure Rural Schools (SRS)
If the state were to take over management of federal land, counties and schools would lose this money:
PILT: $28.8 million in FY14 for Montana SRS: $21.2 million in FY13 for Montana
2011
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