Factors in United States Forest Service district rangers' decision to manage a fire for resource benefit

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 755-762

  Williamson, Martha A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis; Wildland Fire Use (WFU)

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249046605     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF06019     Document Type: Article

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