Effects of Fire in the Northern Great Plains
Author | : Kenneth F. Higgins |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fire ecology |
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Author | : Kenneth F. Higgins |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Kenneth F. Higgins |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Provides information concerning the effects of fire on the grassland biome of the Northern Great Plains, with emphasis on the use of fire for wildlife management.
Author | : Henry A. Wright |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Fire ecology |
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The Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) presents the full text of "Effects of Fire in the Northern Great Plains," written by Kenneth F. Higgins, Arnold D. Kruse, and James L. Piehl. The document contains information about the effects of fire on the Northern Great Plains (NGP), with special emphasis on the use of fire for wildlife management.
Author | : Henry A. Wright |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Fire ecology |
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Author | : Kenneth F. Higgins |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Burning of land |
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Author | : Julie Courtwright |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2023-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700635130 |
Prairie fires have always been a spectacular and dangerous part of the Great Plains. Nineteenth-century settlers sometimes lost their lives to uncontrolled blazes, and today ranchers such as those in the Flint Hills of Kansas manage the grasslands through controlled burning. Even small fires, overlooked by history, changed lives-destroyed someone's property, threatened someone's safety, or simply made someone's breath catch because of their astounding beauty. Julie Courtwright, who was born and raised in the tallgrass prairie of Butler County, Kansas, knows prairie fires well. In this first comprehensive environmental history of her subject, Courtwright vividly recounts how fire-setting it, fighting it, watching it, fearing it-has bound Plains people to each other and to the prairies themselves for centuries. She traces the history of both natural and intentional fires from Native American practices to the current use of controlled burns as an effective land management tool, along the way sharing the personal accounts of people whose lives have been touched by fire. The book ranges from Texas to the Dakotas and from the 1500s to modern times. It tells how Native Americans learned how to replicate the effects of natural lightning fires, thus maintaining the prairie ecosystem. Native peoples fired the prairie to aid in the hunt, and also as a weapon in war. White settlers learned from them that burns renewed the grasslands for grazing; but as more towns developed, settlers began to suppress fires-now viewed as a threat to their property and safety. Fire suppression had as dramatic an environmental impact as fire application. Suppression allowed the growth of water-wasting trees and caused a thick growth of old grass to build up over time, creating a dangerous environment for accidental fires. Courtwright calls on a wide range of sources: diary entries and oral histories from survivors, colorful newspaper accounts, military weather records, and artifacts of popular culture from Gene Autry stories to country song lyrics to Little House on the Prairie. Through this multiplicity of voices, she shows us how prairie fires have always been a significant part of the Great Plains experience-and how each fire that burned across the prairies over hundreds of years is part of someone's life story. By unfolding these personal narratives while looking at the bigger environmental picture, Courtwright blends poetic prose with careful scholarship to fashion a thoughtful paean to prairie fire. It will enlighten environmental and Western historians and renew a sense of wonder in the people of the Plains.
Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0816536163 |
Early descriptions of the Great Plains often focus on a vast, grassy expanse that was either burnt or burning. The scene continued to burn until the land was plowed under or grazed away and broken by innumerable roads and towns. Yet, where the original landscape has persisted, so has fire, and where people have sought to restore something of that original setting, they have had to reinstate fire. This has required the persistence or creation of a fire culture, which in turn inspired schools of science and art that make the Great Plains today a regional hearth for American fire. Volume 5 of To the Last Smoke introduces a region that once lay at the geographic heart of American fire, and today promises to reclaim something of that heritage. After all these years, the Great Plains continue to bear witness to how fires can shape contemporary life, and vice versa. In this collection of essays, Stephen J. Pyne explores how this once most regularly and widely burned province of North America, composed of various subregions and peoples, has been shaped by the flames contained within it and what fire, both tame and feral, might mean for the future of its landscapes. Included in this volume: How wildland and rural fire have changed from the 19th century to the 21st century How fire is managed in the nation’s historic tallgrass prairies, from Texas to South Dakota, from Illinois to Nebraska How fire connects with other themes of Great Plains life and culture How and why Texas has returned to the national narrative of landscape fire
Author | : Kenneth F. Higgins |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fire |
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This interpretation and compendium of historical fire accounts in the northern Great Plains provides resource managers with background information to justify the study or use of fire in management and provides a reference of historic fire accounts for those without ready access to major library collections. Historical accounts of fire are critiqued to aid interpreting the compendium accounts. An interpretation is included by the author.