An adaptive management process for forest soil conservation

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 717-722

  Curran, Michael P ^a,b   Maynard, Douglas G ^c   Heninger, Ronald L ^d   Terry, Thomas A ^e   Howes, Steven W ^f   Stone, Douglas M ^g   Niemann, Thomas ^a   Miller, Richard E ^h   Powers, Robert F ⁱ  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY   (United States)

^e WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY   (United States)

^f USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^g NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^h PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

ⁱ PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Criteria and indicators; Monitoring (implementation, effectiveness, and validation); Montreal Process; Rutting; Soil compaction; Soil disturbance

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CRITERIA AND INDICATORS; MONTREAL PROCESS; RUTTING; SOIL DISTURBANCE;

FORESTRY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COMPACTION; FOREST SOIL; RUTTING; SOIL CONSERVATION;

FORESTRY; SOIL;

EID: 27644493739     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: 00157546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc81717-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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