Modeling the effects of thinning on bark beetle impacts and wildfire potential in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 301-311

  Ager, Alan A ^a   McMahan, Andrew ^b   Hayes, Jane L ^a   Smith, Eric L ^c  

^a Pacific Northwest Research Station   (United States)

^b Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Forest Vegetation Simulator; Landscape simulation modeling; Thinning; Westwide Pine Beetle Model; Wildfire behavior

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE PROTECTION; FUELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

BARK BEETLES; FOREST VEGETATION SIMULATORS; LANDSCAPE SIMULATION MODELING; THINNING; WESTWIDE PINE BEETLE MODELS; WILDFIRE BEHAVIOR;

FIRE RESISTANCE;

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MORTALITY RISK; PEST OUTBREAK; RISK ASSESSMENT; THINNING; WILDFIRE;

BLUE MOUNTAINS [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 33947723498     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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