Outreach, applied research, and management needs for Wisconsin's great lakes freshwater estuaries: A cooperative extension needs assessment model

Journal of Extension

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Robinson, Patrick ^a   Shepard, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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