On conducting a multisite, multidisciplinary forestry research project: Lessons from the national fire and fire surrogate study

Forest Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-17

  McIver, James Duncan ^a   Weatherspoon, Charles Phillip ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry forests; Forest thinning; Fuel reduction; Mechanical treatments; Prescribed fire

Indexed keywords

DRY FORESTS; FOREST THINNINGS; FUEL REDUCTION; MECHANICAL TREATMENTS; PRESCRIBED FIRES;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FIRES; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

EXPERIMENTS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTATION; FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES; THINNING;

COLEOPTERA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 76749110198     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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