Effectiveness of fuel treatments for mitigating wildfire risk and sequestering forest carbon: A case study in the Lake Tahoe Basin
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.011 0378-1127/Published by Elsevier B.V. ⇑ Corresponding author. Present address: Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Center for Forest Disturbance Science, USDA Forest Service, 320 Green Street, Athens, GA 30602, USA. Tel.: +1 706 559 4309. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E.L. Loudermilk), alisonestanton @gmail.com (A. Stanton), [email protected] (R.M. Scheller), [email protected] (T.E. Dilts), [email protected] (P.J. Weisberg), [email protected] (C. Skinner), [email protected] (J. Yang). 1 Tel.: +1 415 99
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