Displaying 1121 - 1130 of 1161
Trousdell
The paper describes a 7-year study in the coastal plain of North Carolina integrating common cultural methods with dollar costs and percent increase in natural loblolly pine stocking. On heavy textured soils, neither burning nor disking can be…
Type: Document
Year: 1963
Hughes, Hilmon, Burton
Abundant forage is produced on southern woodlands, but quality of native grasses is low. The grazing value of pineywoods rangeland may be improved by (1) burning, (2) site modification, such as chopping or discing and application of fertilizers, or…
Type: Document
Year: 1962
Komarek
[Author provides historical/cultural background for use of fire; also discusses negative attitudes toward fire. Summarizes use of fire in various regions and vegetation types to improve wildlife habitat, suppress growth of undesirable species,…
Type: Document
Year: 1962
Denevan
[no description entered]
Type: Document
Year: 1961
Hardison
Prospects for controlling diseases in forage seed production appear bright because of the opportunities for effectively combining cultural methods with disease resistance and with chemical treatments of seed, plants, and soil. Successful control of…
Type: Document
Year: 1960
Wahlenberg
The loblolly forests of the South may truthfully be said to be that expansive region's greatest renewable resource. The botanical range of the species extends in a great crescent southwestward through fourteen states, from Delaware to Texas,…
Type: Document
Year: 1960
Biswell
'Two cultures have used the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada of California - the redman, or aborigine, and the white, or civilized man. Because of their differing attitudes and customs regarding the use of fire, each culture has profoundly…
Type: Document
Year: 1959
Sampson, Schultz
'This article represents the first section of a paper on equipment for control of brush and undesirable trees which has been prepared at the request of FAO.' From the text... 'Much of the earth's surface is covered with brush. It is difficult to…
Type: Document
Year: 1956
Stoddard
Several important matters dealing with the growing of pine timber and the management of game birds in our region are still in dispute. Such for instance as whether to, or how to use controlled fire as a silvi- cultural and wildlife management tool.…
Type: Document
Year: 1956
Stewart
From the text...'The unrestricted burning of vegetation appears to be a universal culture trait among historic primitive peoples and therefore was probably employed by our remote ancestors. Archeology indicates that extensive areas of the Old and…
Type: Document
Year: 1956