An economic comparison of prescribed extreme fire and alternative methods for managing invasive brush species in Texas: A modeling approach

Open Agriculture Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-26

  van Liew, Dustin ^a   Conner, J Richard ^a   Kreuter, Urs P ^a   Teague, Richard ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brush control; Invasive plants; Prescribed fire; Rangeland management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860430005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18743315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874331501206010017     Document Type: Article

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