Fire management and policy since European settlement

Fire in California's Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 431-443

  Stephens, Scott L ^a   Sugihara, Neil G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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