Thinning and prescribed fire and projected trends in wood product potential, financial return, and fire hazard in Montana

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW

Volumn , Issue 606, 2004, Pages 1-78

  Barbour, R James ^a   Fight, Roger D ^a   Christensen, Glenn A ^a   Pinjuv, Guy L ^a,b   Nagubadi, Rao V ^a,c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial return; Fire hazard; Montana; Thinning; Wood products

Indexed keywords

FIRE MANAGEMENT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PROFITABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILVICULTURE; THINNING; WOOD QUALITY;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 10244230883     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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