The challenge of reforestration: Ecological experiments in the Douglas fir forest, 1920-1940

Environmental History

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-79

  Brock, Emily ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; REFORESTATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

ABIES; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 1542756368     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3985945     Document Type: Article

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