Wildfire’s resistance to control in mountain pine beetle-attacked lodgepole pine forests

Concerns about the impacts of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins)-caused tree mortality on wildfire potential in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. var. latifolia Engelm.) for...

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