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


26. Bontrager, O. E., C. J. Scifres, and D. L. Drawe. 1977. Comparison of chemical 
         and mechanical methods for controlling huisache. Proc. Annu. Meet. 
         South. Weed Sci. Soc. 30:232. (Abstract only)

In a comparison of control methods for huisache on bottomland range (Texas coastal prairie), spraying with an oil:water emulsion of herbicides or diesel oil alone, or burning, then treatment of individual plants with herbicides, were both twice as expensive as low energy grubbing. [From authors' abstract]

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