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Stewart
From the text ... 'The historic records from around the world leave no room to doubt that primitive hunting and gathering peoples, as well as ancient farmers and herders, for a number of reasons, frequently and intentionally set fire to almost all…
Type: Document
Year: 1963
Stewart
In March 1963, anthropologist Omer Stewart delivered a paper at the second annual Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference in Tallahassee, Florida, about the ecological significance of the use of fire by aboriginal peoples around the world. This paper,…
Type: Document
Year: 1963
Hardison
The blind-seed disease fungus (Gloeotinia temulenta) increased in prevalence rapidly in western Oregon from 1941 to 1944 until nearly 90% of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) crops were infected. A control program started in September, 1944 and…
Type: Document
Year: 1963
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