Bill Mueller posted the following on the Wisconsin Birding Network...
For anyone interested in grassland birds and their management, take a look at the EXCELLENT recent paper in Birding (the ABA magazine), by Dan Reinking of the George M. Sutton Avian Research Center, in Oklahoma: "Fire in the Tallgrass Prairie: Finding the Right Balance of Burning for Birds". Although not all articles in Birding are available online, this one is fortunately available as a pdf.
Here's the link: Fire in the Tallgrass Prairie
(This is a big file [2.34 megabytes], so it would be a very slow download for those with a dial-up connection - just giving you fair warning).
William P. Mueller
Issues Committee Chair, Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative (WBCI)
Conservation Chair, Wisconsin Society for Ornithology (WSO)
Image © 2006 Mike McDowell
