Western pine forests with continuing frequent fire regimes: Possible reference sites for management

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 357-362

  Stephens, Scott L ^a   Fulé, Peter Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desired conditions; Forest restoration; Jeffrey pine; Mexico; Ponderosa pine; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FIRE HAZARDS; HARVESTING; MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION; SOFTWOODS;

DESIRED CONDITIONS; FOREST RESTORATION; WILDFIRE;

FORESTRY;

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARVESTING; MEXICO; PINUS JEFFREYI; PINUS PONDEROSA; RESTORATION;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PINUS JEFFREYI;

EID: 29244437545     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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