Motivations and task preferences of urban forestry volunteers

Journal of Arboriculture

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 116-129

  Still, Douglas T ^a   Gerhold, Henry D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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