Modeling potential outcomes of fire and fuel management scenarios on the structure of forested habitats in northeast Oregon, USA

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 223-236

  Wales, Barbara C ^a   Suring, Lowell H ^b   Hemstrom, Miles A ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest restoration; Fuels management; Habitat modeling; Interior Northwest Landscape Analysis System (INLAS); Lynx canadensis; Wildlife habitat

Indexed keywords

FIRE PROTECTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION;

FOREST RESTORATION; FUELS MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MODELING; INTERIOR NORTHWEST LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS SYSTEM (INLAS); LYNX CANADENSIS; WILDLIFE HABITAT;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FELID; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; THINNING; WILDFIRE;

FIRE PROTECTION; FORESTRY; PLANTS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA; LYNX; LYNX CANADENSIS; NECKAR RIVER VIRUS;

EID: 33947716580     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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