A strategic assessment of crown fire hazard in Montana: Potential effectiveness and costs of hazard reduction treatments

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW

Volumn , Issue 622, 2004, Pages 1-21

  Fiedler, Carl E ^a   Keegan III, Charles E ^a   Woodall, Christopher W ^a,b   Morgan, Todd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Forest inventory; Forest Inventory and Analysis; Forest restoration; Hazard reduction; Montana; Treatments; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

COST; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WILDFIRE;

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

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 12844273660     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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