studies evaluated the effects 

 of different seasons and 

 frequencies of burning on 

 herbage production and 

 tree growth (e.g., Grelen 

 1983). The early work of 

 H.L Stoddard with the 

 bobwhite quail indicated 

 how fire can be used to 

 perpetuate one of the 

 South's premier game 

 species. In more recent 

 years the accumulating 

 knowledge of beneficial 

 effects of fire on wildlife 

 habitat has been summa- 

 rized in various publications 

 and symposia (e.g., Wood 

 1981 and Kormarek 1981). 



Fire research efforts of 

 agencies other than the 

 Forest Service have notably 

 included work by the Tall 

 Timbers Research Station 

 at Tallahasee, FL Under 

 the leadership of E.V. 

 Kormarek, Sr., this organiza- 

 tion conducted numerous 

 symposia on the complex 

 influences of fire on plant 

 and animal environments 

 and the use of fire in land 

 management. Fire ecology 

 conferences starting in 

 1962, and published pro- 

 ceedings resulting there- 

 from have provided much 

 knowledge on the ecology 



of prescribed burning and 

 its impacts on wildlife. 



Much of the accumulating 

 information on prescribed 

 burning was summarized in 

 a notable symposium con- 

 ducted in Charleston, SC, 

 in 1971 (USDA Forest 

 Service 1971). Another 

 treatise on prescribed 

 burning was issued in an 

 Environmental Protection 

 Agency source document 

 (Chi and others 1979). 

 Major textbooks on fire, 

 including an initial work by 

 A.D. Folweiler and A.A. 

 Brown in 1939 and a 

 definitive text ("Forest Fire 

 Control and Use") published 

 by K.P. Davis in 1959, 

 contained considerable 

 information on prescribed 

 burning. Many local how-to- 

 do-it manuals, with specific 

 guidelines, also have been 

 issued by different agencies 

 and industry organizations. 



With the accumulation of 

 research findings and 

 empirical evidence of favor- 

 able effects of prescribed 

 burning, particularly in the 

 coastal plain region and 

 lower Piedmont, the Forest 

 Service and State forestry 

 agencies in the early 1940's 

 reversed a long-standing 



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