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J. Boykin for fire information, and D. L. Tyron and Keith 
Coursey for biological and historical information. We also 
thank M. D. Kaller and W. J. Platt at LSU for assistance 
with the original thesis manuscript from which this paper is 
derived. We especially thank L. M. Palasz, E. I. Johnson, D. 
M. Fox, F. L. Owens, J. L. Anderson, J. H. Carpenter, 
Adam Walz, M. G. Hunter, R. S. Babin, and K. A. 
Hackman and Madison Central High School in Madison, 
Mississippi. We thank the LSU RNR community, partic¬ 
ularly the graduate students. We also thank two anonymous 
reviewers whose comments greatly improved this manu¬ 
script. Most of all we thank the numerous volunteers who 
helped with field work. This manuscript was approved for 
publication by the Director of the Louisiana Agricultural 
Experiment Station as manuscript number 2010-241-5139. 
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