Fire history of a Douglas-fir-Oregon white oak woodland, Waldron Island, Washington

Northwest Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-119

  Sprenger, Carson B ^a   Dunwiddie, Peter W ^b  

^a Rain Shadow Consulting   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; POPULATION SIZE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TREE RING; WOODLAND;

PUGET SOUND; SAN JUAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WALDRON ISLAND; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; QUERCUS GARRYANA;

EID: 79959557480     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/046.085.0203     Document Type: Article

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