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Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): H. L. Stoddard
Editor(s): H. L. Stoddard
Publication Date: 1931

Brief chapter outline from head of chapter...'Relation of burning to the quail supply. The place of woodlands on quail preserves. Causes of deterioration of agricultural quail preserves. Relation of fire to vegetation density. Effect of burning on quail food plants. Value of fire as a sterilizing agent. Fire lanes. Conclusions. Opening forests for quail. Where fire is justified. Burning practices. Uncontrolled fires condemned.'

Citation: Stoddard, H. L. 1931. The use and abuse of fire on southern quail preserves [Chapter 15], in HL Stoddard ed., The bobwhite quail: its habits, preservation and increase. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 401-414.

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  • agriculture
  • Andropogon
  • Aristida stricta
  • burning intervals
  • Cassia nictitans
  • coastal plain
  • Colinus virginianus
  • community ecology
  • cover type conversion
  • Desmodium glutinosum
  • diseases
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • ecotones
  • fire frequency
  • firebreaks
  • flatwoods
  • forest edges
  • forest management
  • grass fires
  • ground cover
  • hunting
  • legumes
  • Lespedeza
  • lightning caused fires
  • logging
  • north Florida
  • old fields
  • Pinus taeda
  • population ecology
  • season of fire
  • South Carolina
  • south Georgia
  • wildfires
  • wildlife food plants
  • wildlife habitat management
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