Postfire rehabilitation treatments: Are we learning what works?

Proceedings of the 2005 Watershed Management Conference - Managing Watersheds for Human and Natural Impacts: Engineering, Ecological, and Economic Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 521-532

  Robichaud, P R ^a   Brown, R E ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODING POTENTIAL; SOIL CONDITIONS; WATER REPELLENT;

EROSION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOILS;

FIRE HAZARDS;

EID: 27744541260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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