Fire management prescriptions for the Victorian Mallee Parks

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 395-412

  Sandell, Peter ^a   Tolhurst, Kevin ^b   Dalton, James ^c   Scott, Barry ^c   Smith, Milton ^c  

^a Parks Victoria   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Emergency Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fire management; Mallee; Prescribed burning; Unbounded burning; Victoria

Indexed keywords

FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; WILDERNESS AREA; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MALLEE; MURRAY SUNSET NATIONAL PARK; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 34447546726     PISSN: 00359211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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