Costs of landscape silviculture for fire and habitat management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 385-404

  Hummel, S ^a   Calkin, D E ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem management; Late successional reserve; Northern spotted owl; Northwest Forest Plan; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS;

FIRE THREAT (FT); FOREST RESERVES; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LATE SERAL FOREST (LSF);

FORESTRY;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SILVICULTURE;

COSTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SILVICULTURE;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS CAURINA;

EID: 14644424607     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.10.057     Document Type: Article

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