Dale G. Brockway

TL;DR: A flatwoods longleaf pine wiregrass ecosystem, which regenerated naturally following wildfire in 1942, on the Coastal Plain of southern Georgia was treated over a period of four decades with prescribed fire at annual, biennial and triennial intervals during the winter dormant season as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined 12 representative canopy gaps distributed across 600 ha of a naturally regenerated uneven-aged longleaf pine forest in the sandhills of north central Florida to determine which aboveground and belowground factors are responsible for development of this seedling exclusionary zone.

TL;DR: The initial findings of this long-term experiment suggest that dormant-season burning may be the preferable method for restoring fire in shortgrass prairie ecosystems where fire has been excluded for a prolonged time period.

TL;DR: Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystems once occupied 38 million ha in the Southeastern United States, occurring as forests, woodlands, and savannas on a variety of sites ranging from wet flatwoods to xeric sandhills and rocky mountainous ridges as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Evaluating the effectiveness of mechanical overstory reduction and three slash treatment alternatives followed by prescribed fire as techniques for restoring grassland savannas from degraded woodlands found that scattering slash across the site to serve as a mulch appears most beneficial to improving plant species diversity and conserving site resources.