Fire management in the slash pine ecosystem. Wade Dale D. 1986. Linking fire behavior to its effects on living plant tissue. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. Managing southern grazing ecosystems with fire.
Low intensity burn prior to bedding and planting slash pine is of little value.
Long term studies of prescribed burning in loblolly pine forests of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. Effects of spring defoliation on first-year growth of young loblolly and slash pines. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.