Does conserving roadless wildland increase wildfire activity in western US national forests?

National forests in the western United States are divided roughly in half between lands without roads managed for wilderness characteristics and lands with an extensive road system managed for multiple uses including resource extraction. We investigated the influence of these land use designations o...

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Main Authors: James D Johnston, John B Kilbride, Garrett W Meigs, Christopher J Dunn, Robert E Kennedy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13ee