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From the text ... 'Some thirty-odd years ago, Aldo Leopold (1933) defined game management as '. . . the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use.' Recently, after a bibliographical journey through the pages of the Journal of Wildlife Management seeking fire references for Tall Timbers Research Station, I am left with the impression that Aldo Leopold's message has been overlooked. By and large, the majority of the papers in this journal are concerned with recording events, life history, census, analysis of existing habitats and the life. Comparatively few papers deal with active habitat modification, creation of new habitats or the assessment of wildlife response to vegetation manipulation which in essence is wildlife management. Since the Journal is the official publication of a professional wildlife management organization, it should at least reflect orientation of research and professional ability to make land productive of wildlife.If Leopold's objective seems to be obscured here, Stoddard's (1932) message on controlled burning in his 15th chapter of The Bobwhite Quail appears to have been likewise overlooked. Nowhere in the indexes in the twenty-nine volumes of the Journal of Wildlife Management do the terms 'controlled burning' or 'prescribed burning' appear as headings. Only a very few papers are concerned with controlled burning experimentation, despite the fact that fire, under control, is one of the few natural techniques available for regulating native terrestrial vegetation over both small and large areas.Much knowledge already exists concerning food habits, general habitat requirements, analysis of existing habitats and life history, and further investigation along these lines cannot take the place of practical experience gained through experimentation in manipulating vegetation on the land to assess its value in wildlife production.... In short, how do you put wildlife in the native landscape? In conclusion, this paper calls for a reorientation of wildlife research effort in the direction of on-the-land experimentation to develop practical methods in producing wildlife landscape.' © 1966, Tall Timbers Research, Inc. Abstract reproduced by permission.
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- fire management
- histories
- national forests
- national parks
- Tall Timbers Research Station
- wildlife
- wildlife habitat management
- wildlife management
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