The rising Great Plains fire campaign: Citizens' response to woody plant encroachment

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2013, Pages

  Twidwell, Dirac ^a   Rogers, William E ^b   Fuhlendorf, Samuel D ^a   Wonkka, Carissa L ^b   Engle, David M ^a   Weir, John R ^a   Kreuter, Urs P ^b   Taylor Jr , Charles A ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SECTOR; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND; WOODY PLANT;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS;

EID: 84883234586     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130015     Document Type: Review

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