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Type: Conference Paper
Publication Date: 1892
From the text ... 'The grass on the prairies becomes, in the autumn, much drier and more combustible than it usually does in Europe; and, when it is remembered that the American climate is much drier than ours, that high winds are more prevalent, and that the area over which a fire can run, when once started, is of enormous extent, no one need wonder that very great conflagrations often take place.'
Citation: Christy, M. 1892. Why are the prairies treeless?, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Edward Stanford,London. 14, p. 78-100,New series.
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Keywords:
- Arkansas
- Canada
- Europe
- fertility
- fire frequency
- fire injuries (plants)
- fire management
- fire size
- geography
- grasses
- human caused fires
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- mammals
- Manitoba
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Native Americans
- Nebraska
- Northwest Territories
- Ohio
- prairies
- precipitation
- range management
- season of fire
- small mammals
- soil moisture
- soil nutrients
- soil organic matter
- soils
- Tennessee
- Texas
- understory vegetation
- wildfires
- wind
- Wisconsin
Tall Timbers Record Number: 21614 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Fire File • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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