Change in extent of meadows and shrub fields in the central Western Cascade Range, Oregon

Professional Geographer

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 527-540

  Takaoka, Sadao ^a   Swanson, Frederick ^b  

^a Senshu University   (China)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascade Range; Forest fire; Landscape scale; Meadow contraction; Sheep grazing

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAZING; LANDSCAPE; MEADOW; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SHRUB; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE RING; VEGETATION;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 53249136398     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330120802212099     Document Type: Article

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