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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…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Arnold
From the Summary ... 'In the mixed spruce-fir-aspen-pine forests, the use of fire will largely be confined to cleaning up slash and debris after logging and pulp wood harvests.In the management of Ponderosa Pine forests, the usual practice of piling…
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
McCulloch
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Knorr
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Johnson
Cutting shallow trenches with a bulldozer or giant plow achieves the three requisites for natural regeneration of cottonwood: a bare seedbed, removal of overstory other than seed trees, and freedom from weeds for at least a year.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Arnold, Komarek
Filed in folder containing photos, maps, notes and itinerary from 1963 trip to Arizona by E.V. Komarek and Herbert Stoddard.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Van Wagner
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Black
The results of a 9-year rotational burning study on blueberry fields at the Experimental Project Farm, Alliston, Prince Edward Island, indicated that total fruit production was greater from burning every second year than from every third year. Both…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Chandler, Storey, Tangren
Mass fires are likely to follow a nuclear attack. Since it is important to the civil defense program to be able to predict rate, duration, and extent of spread of such fires, the Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, issued a joint…
Year: 1963
Type: Document