Perceptions of Texas landowners regarding fire and its use

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 456-464

  Kreuter, Urs P ^a   Woodard, J Brad ^b   Taylor, Charles A ^c   Teague, W Richard ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Landowner associations; Landowner attitudes; Prescribed fire; Rangelands

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FIRE; LANDOWNER; PERCEPTION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RANGELAND; RURAL AREA; WILDFIRE;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62149114461     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/07-144.1     Document Type: Article

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