Assessing and managing wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface

Ecosystem Ecology Research Trends

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 275-297

  Prato, Tony ^a   Keane, Bob ^b   Fagre, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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