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Restoration of North American Salt Deserts: A Look at the Past and Suggestions for the Future

Jayne L. Jonas, M. Nikki Grant-Hoffman and Mark W. Paschke
Ecological Restoration, September 2018, 36 (3) 177-194; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.36.3.177
Jayne L. Jonas
(corresponding author), Colorado State University, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1472, .
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M. Nikki Grant-Hoffman
Bureau of Land Management, Colorado National Conservation Lands, Grand Junction, CO 81506.
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Mark W. Paschke
Colorado State University, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1472.
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