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Ecological and Cultural Significance of Burning Beargrass Habitat on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Daniela Joy Shebitz, Sarah Hayden Reichard and Peter W. Dunwiddie
Ecological Restoration, September 2009, 27 (3) 306-319; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.27.3.306
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