Influences of forest roads on the spatial pattern of wildfire boundaries

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 792-803

  Narayanaraj, Ganapathy ^a   Wimberly, Michael C ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fire break; fire suppression; fuels; matched case control logistic regression; topography; Wenatchee National Forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053116201     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF10032     Document Type: Article

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