Research Article

Evaluating Sensitivity of the Ranking of Forest Fuel Treatments to Manager’s Risk Attitudes and the Importance of Treatment Objectives, Montana, USA

Table 3

Results of Mann-Whitney U tests of equality of median certainty equivalents for three pairs of fuel treatment strategies for two risk attitudes and three managers.

WeightAlmost Risk Neutral (ARAC  ϵ  -.005, .005])Highly risk averse (ARAC  ϵ  .02, .04])
scenarioCWPP vs. NPCWPP & WUI vs. NPCWPP vs. CWPP & WUICWPP vs. NPCWPP & WUI vs. NPCWPP vs. CWPP & WUI

U.S. Forest Service (FS)

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FS11RejecRejecRejecRejecDo not rejecDo not rejec
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Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DR)

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Plum Creek Timber Company (PC)

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PC5Do not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecRejecDo not rejec
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PC7Do not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecRejecRejec
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PC9Do not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecRejec
PC10Do not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejecDo not rejec