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

93. Griffith, R. W. 1941. Waterfowl management on Atlantic coast refuges. Trans. 
         N. Am. Wildl. Conf. 5:373-377.

The five principal management practices for Atlantic coast refuges are water manipulation, drawdown, burning and the production of supplementary food crops. A combination of fresh and brackish feeding grounds and provisions for water level manipulation within managed units are prerequisites to proper management. Controlled burning rejuvenates needle rush and permits utilization of American bulrush rootstocks when marshhay cordgrass-bulrush stands are burned. Removal of dead cordgrass leads to increased use by not only geese, but also greater and lesser yellowlegs and common snipe. [K-L-S]

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