Windstorm damage in boundary waters canoe area wilderness (Minnesota, USA): Evaluating landscape-level risk factors

Baltic Forestry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 248-254

  Keith Moser And, W ^a   Nelson, Mark D ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blowdown; Landscape; Minnesota USA; Risk; Wilderness; Windstorm

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149094531     PISSN: 13921355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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