Annotated Bibliography of Fire Literature

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

198. Woolfolk, J.S., E.F. Smith, R.R. Schalles, B.E. Brent, L.H. Harbers, and C.E. Owensby. 1975. Effects of nitrogen fertilization and late-spring burning of bluestem range on diet and performance of steers. J Range Manage 28:190-193.

Burning and fertilization (40 lb N/acre), both alone and in combination, compared for cattle weight gain and nutrient value of forage consumed by free-feeding, fistulated steers in tallgrass range in Kansas during the first growing season following a late April prescribed burn.

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