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Restoration Considerations of Large Woody Debris in the Elwha River Nearshore, Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Samantha L. Rich, J. Anne Shaffer, Miranda J. Fix and Jeffrey O. Dawson
Ecological Restoration, September 2014, 32 (3) 306-313; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.32.3.306
Samantha L. Rich
Samantha Rich (corresponding author), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13710 Burke Avenue N., Seattle, WA, .
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J. Anne Shaffer
Anne Shaffer, University of Victoria Biology Department, Victoria BC/Coastal Watershed Institute, P.O. Box 2263, Port Angeles, Washington 98362,
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Miranda J. Fix
Miranda J. Fix, Colorado State University, Statistics Department, 102 Statistics Building, Fort Collins CO 80523, .
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Jeffrey O. Dawson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Plant Sciences Laboratory, 1201 S. Dorner Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, .
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