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Martin, Cushwa
From the text ... 'The purpose of this paper is to explore possible mechanisms by which fire may benefit several species of leguminous plants through its direct effects on the seed. The work presented here is exploratory, although the effects of…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Komarek
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…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Maini, Horton
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Adams
The results of controlled burning on cut-over jack pine sites in southeastern Manitoba can be summarized as follows: (1) The fire hazard resulting from jack pine slash was eliminated on all the areas burned. (2) On most areas a good proportion of…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Williams
From the text...'A fire-control problem of major proportions in B.C., as in many other areas, results from hazardous accumulations of logging slash. The basic question is whether it is wiser to give cut-over areas added protection and tolerate the…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Knight
Burning experiments conducted in the labortory indicated a 25-64 per cent loss of nitrogen from the forest floor at temperatures of 300-700ºC. Burning increased the nitrogen concentration of the residual material, but the total amount of nitrogen…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Walker, Wiant
From the text 'Shortleaf pine occurs with loblolly pine throughout most of the upper Coastal Plain of the mid-South and Southeast. It is found infrequently with other southern pines where these are predominant in the lower Coastal Plain, and it may…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Reynolds
Slash is commonly cleaned up after logging in many ponderosa pine forests. In general, slash is disposed of in areas of high fire danger, but left undisturbed in areas of little fire hazard. Slash disposal can affect forest understory. In a…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Van Wagner
A series of three 4—acre plots in a jack pine cut over were burned at three degrees of fire hazard. The weather, fire behaviour, and effects are reported, and a general conclusion drawn by others was confirmed: slash hazard is reduced by any running…
Year: 1966
Type: Document