Landscape management using historical fire regimes: Blue River, Oregon

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1217-1231

  Cissel, John H ^a   Swanson, Frederick J ^b   Weisberg, Peter J ^c  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Disturbance ecology; Historical fire regime; Landscape analysis; Landscape plan; Landscape structure; Late successional habitat; Northwest Forest Plan

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FIRE HISTORY; TIMBER HARVESTING;

BLUE RIVER; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032750612     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[1217:LMUHFR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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