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Granfelt
'...That man contributed (and continues to contribute) to the incidence of fires on the Great Plains cannot be denied, but the role of lightning should not be overlooked or slighted.'
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Van Wagner
An 80-foot-square plot in a red pine plantation was burned at extreme fire danger as part of a study of fire behavior and effect. When the wind reversed its direction, the original slow-moving back-fire changed within a few minutes to a fast-…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Weaver
[from the text] This article reflects the author's views, based upon his observations during 35 years of service as a professional forester in the Western Pine Region, including his active participation in pilot plant experiments with prescribed…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
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…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Humphrey
From the text ... 'Until civilized man entered the picture, fires were probably a periodically recurring phenomenon on the rangelands of the Southwest wherever there was enough fuel to carry fire. In the drier desert areas growth was probably too…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Leopold, Cain, Cottam, Gabrielson, Kimball
[no description entered]
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Bates
Can minimum nighttime temperatures be used in some areas as an indicator of one type of blowup conditions? A preliminary study of several project fires occurring on the Tonto, Sitgreaves, and Prescott National Forests in the years 1951 to 1961…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Komarek
Fire ecology can be defined as the study of fire as it affects the environment and the interrelationships of plants and animals therein. It is assumed that through natural selection primarily, over long periods of time, plants and animals have…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Cooper
[no description entered]
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Ferguson
[From introduction] Range management specialists have become increasingly concerned in the past few decades with the competition between species produced by the invasion of shrubby plants into grassland ranges. Big sagebrush, Artemisia tridentata…
Year: 1959
Type: Document