Fire Regime Attributes of Wildland Fires in Yosemite National Park, USA

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Jan W. van Wagtendonk1, James A. Lutz2
1Yosemite Field Station, USGS Western Ecological Research Center, El Portal, CA, 95318, USA
2College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Box 352100, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

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