New diagrams and applications for the wire zone-border zone approach to vegetation management on electric transmission line rights-of-way

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 435-439

  Ballard, Benjamin D ^a   McLoughlin, Kevin T ^b   Nowak, Christopher A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK POWER AUTHORITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND USE PLANNING; POWER LINE; VEGETATION;

EID: 35648932054     PISSN: 02785226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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