Using fire history models to estimate proportions of old growth forest in Northwest Montana, USA

Biological Conservation

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-39

  Lesica, Peter ^a,b  

^a Conservation Biology Research ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire history models; Forest conservation; Montana; Old growth

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST;

USA, MONTANA;

EID: 0029752541     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3207(95)00130-1     Document Type: Article

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