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Industrial-Area Street Trees in Portland, Oregon

Joseph Poracsky and Mark Scott
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) January 1999, 25 (1) 9-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.1999.002
Joseph Poracsky
1Department of Geography, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751
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1Department of Geography, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751
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