Comparing landscape-based decision rules for placement of fuel treatments in the boreal mixedwood of western Canada

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 664-672

  Parisien, Marc André ^a,c   Junor, David R ^a   Kafka, Victor G ^b  

^a NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn probability; Burn P3 model; Landscape features; Strategically placed areas of treatments (SPLATs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249006422     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF06060     Document Type: Article

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