A Landscape Plan Based on Historical Fire Regimes for a Managed Forest Ecosystem: The Augusta Creek Study

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW

Volumn , Issue PNW-GTR-422, 1998, Pages

  Cissel, John H ^a   Swanson, Frederick J ^a   Grant, Gordon E ^a   Olson, Deanna H ^a   Gregory, Stanley V ^a   Garman, Steven L ^a   Ashkenas, Linda R ^a   Hunter, Matthew G ^a   Kertis, Jane A ^a   Mayo, James H ^a   McSwain, Michelle D ^a   Swetland, Sam G ^a   Swindle, Keith A ^a   Wallin, David O ^a  

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Author keywords

Fire ecology; Fire history; Landscape ecology; Landscape management; Landscape planning; Range of historical variability; Watershed analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842791831     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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