Fire in North American Wetland Ecosystems and Fire-Wildlife Relations: An Annotated Bibliography

1. A. D. Revill Associates. 1978.  Ecological effects of fire and its management 
        in Canada's National Parks: a synthesis of the literature. Parks Canada, 
        Ottawa, ON. 3 vols.

This multivolume work is a bibliography and review of the effects of fire in ecosystems, particularly those typical of or similar to Canada's National Parks. Volume I (191 pp.) provides a review of the literature in 10 chapters that cover fire's effects on all parts of the major ecosystems of Canada, the history of fire occurrence, and the current use of fire in resource management. Volume II (345 pp.) is an annotated bibliography of 446 references considered of greatest importance to fire issues in Canada. Volume III (unnumbered pages) contains 2,240 additional references regarding fire. This review, although emphasizing issues pertinent to Canada's National Parks, nonetheless provides an excellent compendium of the literature on North America's temperate and boreal forests, grasslands, and arctic tundra. Although wetlands are not discussed per se, the effects of fire on beaver, muskrats, and fish are discussed in detail as are the total effects of fire on the various ecosystems in which wetlands occur in Canada. [K-L-S]

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