Eighty-eight years of change in a managed ponderosa pine forest

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report RMRS-GTR

Volumn , Issue RMRS-GTR-23, 1999, Pages

  Smith, Helen Y ^a   Arno, Stephen F ^a  

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Author keywords

Ecosystem based management; Forest succession; Prescribed fire

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039182131     PISSN: 02775786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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