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Introduction to wildland fire

Pyne, Andrews, Laven
This text provides a comprehensive resource for studying the fundamentals of fire behavior, its ecological effects, and its cultural and institutional framework. It presents the fundamental physics and chemistry of fire, fire behavior, wildland…
Type: Document
Year: 1996

Contribution of some soil fungi to natural and heat-induced water repellency in sand

Savage, Martin, Letey
Eight species of fungi isolated from a water repellent soil were incubated for varying periods of time in silica sand. In their latter stages of growth. two of the fungi, Aspergillus Sidowi and Penicillium nigricans, caused limited water repellency…
Type: Document
Year: 1969

Status of field burning and alternate methods for disease control in perennial grasses

Hardison
The nature of the problem underlines the need for field burning and supplies a basis for evaluation of alternate methods for grass disease control. Grass seed production is inherently trashy farming that unavoidably creates conditions favorable for…
Type: Document
Year: 1969