Silvicultural management of community forests towards multiple uses in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia

Degraded Forests in Eastern Africa: Management and Restoration

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 267-290

  Amente, Girma ^a   Huss, Jürgen ^b   Tennigkeit, Timm ^b,c   Yemshaw, Yonas ^d  

^a Oromia Forest and Wildlife Enterprise   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIQUE forestry consultants   (Germany)

^d AFRICAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Kenya)

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