adversely affect soil chem- 

 istry or soil fauna. In later 

 years, other evaluations of 

 impacts of fire on nutrient 

 cycling (e.g., McKee and 

 Lewis 1 982a and b) gave 

 similar reassurance to 

 advocates of controlled fire. 



Another early observer of 

 the role of fire in manage- 

 ment of livestock was S.W. 

 Greene, a range specialist 

 in the Bureau of Animal 

 Husbandry, who urged 

 judicious use of fire for 

 range improvement. His 

 studies showed that burning 

 increases the palatability 

 and nutritive value of south- 

 ern rangelands, and that 

 cattle gain more weight in 

 annually burned ranges 

 than on unbumed areas 

 (Greene 1931). Also in 

 1931, H.L Stoddard, work- 

 ing with the U.S. Biological 

 Survey, published a notable 

 study on the bobwhite 

 quail that showed the value 

 of controlled fire in quail 

 habitat management. 



In 1 933, the Southern Forest 

 Experiment Station summa- 

 rized a number of investiga- 

 tions in a review of the 

 highly controversial issue of 

 prescribed burning versus 

 fire exclusion. This "fire 



statement," covering the 

 pros and cons of fire effects, 

 came out firmly on the side 

 of judicious use of fire for 

 both silvicultural and other 

 forest management purpos- 

 es (Crow 1982). 



In subsequent years, E.L 

 Demmon and others provid- 

 ed much additional informa- 

 tion on the occurrence and 

 silvicultural impacts of fire. 

 H.H. Chapman's work with 

 loblolly pine in Arkansas 

 and Louisiana (1942) paral- 

 leled his earlier informative 

 studies of fire in longleaf 

 pine management. Studies 

 by Wahlenberg and cowork- 

 ers at McNeill, MS, con- 

 firmed the earlier studies 

 by Greene on benefits of 

 prescribed fire on forest 

 ranges. Other investigators 

 such as C.E. Bickford, J.W. 

 Squires, and R.D. McCulley 

 developed further recom- 

 mendations for protective 

 burning in longleaf and 

 slash pine forests. LE. 

 Chaiken and IT. Haig 

 determined that fire could 

 be used effectively in other 

 pine types to control un- 

 wanted hardwoods. Effects 

 of fire on oleoresin yields of 

 longleaf and slash pines 

 were described by V.L 

 Harper (1944). And W.G. 



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