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

83. Furniss, O. C. 1938. The 1937 waterfowl season in the Prince Albert District, 
         central Saskatchewan. Wilson Bull. 50:17-27.

Furniss was among the first to propose a benefit to waterfowl of marsh burning: American crow predation appeared less effficient in burned, and thus more open, stands of softstem bulrush and common cattail which normally permit the predators to walk and climb about within the nesting cover. [K-L-S]

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