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Show Burning Hurts Rather Than Helps Rangeland Forage Eurning over "range land hurts rather than helps the production of forage, a report from the University Uni-versity of Wyoming College of Agriculture states. The report is contained in Issue No. 2 of "Wyoming "Wyo-ming Range Management," a mimeographed publication of the college. The report, based on a 1943 study by O. K. Barnes, soil conservation con-servation technician and Robert Lang, University agronomist, listed a lower soil moisture reserve re-serve on burned over land the year following a fire, which, it said, was reflected in a lower forage production. Grass seed produced on a burned over area after a fire, the report indicated, was much slower in germinating. Seedlings were much weaker in appearance than those coming from seed produced by uninjured grass. i |