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Re: Burning

The effects of fire are many and varied on both plants and animals.  Every
fire depending on its timing, favors or promotes numerous elements and
retards a host of others.  It is a management tool and always has positive
and negative effects.  No fire is either totally good or totally bad.  

An excellent book on the subject is "Fire in North American Tallgrass
Prairies" by Scott Collins and Linda Wallace.  University of Oklahoma
Press-1990.  It was based on a symposium "Fire in North American Grasslands"
held in August of 1987.  The volume looks at all sides of the issue and
cites much scientific information, but at the same time is very easy to
read.  

Perhaps we should make up a list of the effects we have observe from burns
we have all done over the years.  You would need to list the date, your
latitude or location and what effects you observed the season following the
burn.  ie.(A late burn in Texas would be a very early burn in Minnesota, and
have very different effects.)

Carl Kurtz
Central Iowa

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