The economics of prescribed burning: A research review

Forest Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 322-334

  Hesseln, Hayley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Prescribed fire; Wildland fire management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033861634     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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