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Annotated Bibliography of Fire Literature

Relative to Northern Grasslands in South-Central Canada and North-Central United States


36. Buell, M.F., and V. Facey. 1960. Forest-prairie transition west of Itasca Park, Minnesota. Torrey Bot Club Bul 87:46-58.

Present vegetation along a transect in the forest-prairie transition in northwest Minnesota described. Transect data are contrasted with presettlement vegetation described in interviews with early settlers. Describes the probable role of fire in maintenance of the prairie prior to settlement by whites.


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