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  Bracken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brackens (Pteridium) are a genus of about ten species of large, coarse ferns, in the family Hypolepidaceae.
In cold environments bracken is winter-deciduous, and, as it requires well-drained soil, is generally found growing on the sides of hills.
Bracken fiddleheads (the immature, tightly curled emerging fronds) have been considered edible by many cultures throughout history, and are still commonly used today as a foodstuff.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bracken   (847 words)

  
 Description, Bracken Fern -- Vet Med Library, UIUC
Large infestations of bracken fern may be reduced gradually by pulling or mowing the fronds twice a year (in June and August) or by fertilizing and liming infested areas.
Bracken fern poisoning affects the cow and the horse differently with regard to both clinical signs of illness and tissue damage.
The first clinical signs of bracken fern poisoning in horses are usually an unsteady gait, a "tucked up" appearance of the flanks, nervousness, timidity, congestion of the visible mucous membranes, and constipation.
www.library.uiuc.edu /vex/toxic/bracken/bracken.htm   (572 words)

  
 Matthew Bracken
Matt Bracken was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1957 and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in Russian Studies.
Bracken lives in the San Diego area with his wife and two children, and is currently working on a sequel to his first book, titled "Domestic Enemies." He is also in discussions with a LA producer who is considering the production of a feature film, using Bracken's first novel as a template.
Bracken lives in the San Diego area with his wife and two children, and is currently working on a sequel to his first book, titled "Domestic Enemies." He is also in discussions with a LA producer who is considering the production of a feature film, using Bracken's novel as a template.
www.aimpress.com /bracken.htm   (609 words)

  
 Pteridium aquilinum, Bracken Fern, Brake, Brake Fern, Eagle Fern, Female Fern, Fiddlehead, Hog Brake, Pasture Brake, ...
Bracken fern is grown commercially for use as a food and herbal remedy in Canada, the United States, Siberia, China, Japan, and Brazil and is often listed as an edible wild plant.
Bracken fern has been found to be mutagenic and carcinogenic in rats and mice, usually causing stomach or intestinal cancer.
Bracken fern is a potential source of insecticides and it has potential as a biofuel.
www.rook.org /earl/bwca/nature/ferns/pteridiumaqui.html   (2571 words)

  
 Bracken fern
Bracken fern is a perennial fern occurring globally in dry to wet forests, meadows, clearings, sandy soils, roadsides, lake-shores, bogs, and burned areas.
Southern bracken is found in most of the eastern United States between Florida and Oklahoma in the south, to Missouri, Illinois, and Massachusetts in the north.
Bracken fern is found in acid soils in both older forests and in new pine forests, especially those frequently burned.
www.sfrc.ufl.edu /4h/Bracken_fern/bracfern.htm   (417 words)

  
 Walter Bracken Magnet School
Bracken took possession of the old ranch and in 1904 became the postmaster.
Bracken served as the railroad agent in Las Vegas but was more active as the agent of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, the subsidiary set up by the railroad to develop its land holdings.
Bracken was a voice for decency in the railroad's treatment of employees and citizens of the railroad town.
www.ccsd.net /schools/bracken/namesake.htm   (2087 words)

  
 bracken. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Bracken is also a source of tannin and is used for thatching and as bedding for livestock.
The names bracken and brake are sometimes also applied to other large, coarse ferns and, as general terms, to a thicket of such plants.
Bracken is classified in the division Polypodiophyta, class Polypodiopsida, order Filicales, family Polypodiaceae.
www.bartleby.com /65/br/bracken.html   (152 words)

  
 Bracken Fern
Bracken grow in large colonies in fields, brushy areas, and woods.
Young Bracken Ferns are eaten in the Spring by White-tailed Deer.
Bracken Fern has also been used to make a yellow dye, and it is used to make medicines.
www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/bracken_fern.htm   (393 words)

  
 Bracken Fern (Pteridium Aquilinum) and Some of its Constituents (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 40, 1986)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bracken fern was tested for carcinogenicity by oral administration to mice, rats, guinea pigs, cows and toads.
In studies on the carcinogenicity of substances isolated from bracken fern, oral administration of ptaquiloside to rats produced mammary and intestinal tumours.
An acetone exact of bracken fern was mutagenic to Salmonella typhimurium in the presence of an ogenous metabolic system; light petroleum and methanol extracts of bracken fern activated by alkaline treatment were mutagenic to S.
www.inchem.org /documents/iarc/vol40/brackenfern.html   (448 words)

  
 Bracken Ridge Cemetery, Summit Township, Monroe County, Ohio
The Bracken Ridge Cemetery is located in the SW 1/4 of Section 6, Township 6, and Range 7.
Bracken Ridge Road is off of State Route 145 about two miles south of Lewisville, near Baker and Sons Equipment.
According to "Monroe County Ohio Families" published by the Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, the plot of land the the church and cemetery rest on was donated by William R. Draper in 1876, along with the lumber to build the church.
www.geocities.com /brackenridgecemetery   (399 words)

  
 Bracken Ridge Center for Professional Development - Testimonials
At Bracken Ridge everyone is free to focus on the material and how to go back to work and use the material to make a difference".
Bracken Ridge is an excellent location for any team to discuss current issues as well as future opportunities.
Their agenda was to "build the team" through some facilitated activities, to craft the beginnings of a vision and mission for all the district and to define a clear strategy for driving all departments to insure that all actions they take, fiscally and programmatically improve student achievement.
www.brackencenter.com /pages/content/testimonials.html   (861 words)

  
 Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority - Nature in the Dales - Bracken
The distribution of bracken in the National Park generally reflects that of dry heath.
Bracken is also invasive and may lead to the loss of more important habitats due to the dense shade cast and the increased acidity caused by the decaying fronds.
Bracken control should be avoided in areas that support species of conservation concern such as short-eared owl, ring ouzel, twite, high brown or pearl-bordered fritillary butterflies or snakes.
www.yorkshiredales.org.uk /bracken   (248 words)

  
 23. BRACKENFERN, BRAKE FERN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bracken is not considered palatable, but horses will eat it if no other forage is available, or they will consume it in hay or bedding, where it remains toxic.
Consumption of bracken results in the depression of bone marrow (and thus red and white blood cell and platelet production), and the plant has a direct or indirect anti-coagulant property.
Hay with bracken in it should never be fed. If large amounts were consumed, and especially if clinical signs are present, call a veterinarian immediately.
www.vet.purdue.edu /depts/addl/toxic/plant23.htm   (943 words)

  
 Bruce A. Bracken
Bracken, B. A., and Newman, V. Child and adolescent interpersonal relations with mothers, fathers, male peers, female peers, and teachers: A factor analytic investigation.
Bracken, B. A., Howell, K. K., Harrison, T. E., Stanford, L. D., and Zahn, B. Ipsative subtest pattern stability of the Bracken Basic Concept Scale and the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children in a preschool sample.
Bracken, B. A., and Cato, L. Rate of conceptual development among deaf preschool and primary children as compared to a matched group of nonhearing impaired children.
www.wm.edu /education/ncate/faculty/bracken.php   (7426 words)

  
 Bracken and Associates
Bracken and Associates is an organizational effectiveness consulting firm based in Dallas, Texas.
Jeff Bracken a contributor to The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation published by Jossey-Bass.
Bracken and Associates provides comprehensive services to help you design a new leadership development process, or improve or revitalize your current approach.
www.brackenandassociates.com   (327 words)

  
 1992. Bracken Cave: A Priceless Resource . BATS. Vol 10, No 3:3-4.
Bracken Cave in central Texas is summer home to some 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis).
In Mexico, Bracken's bats and the millions of others that join them from throughout the Southwest are increasingly vulnerable.
The bats of Bracken Cave are a national resource to treasure, and BCI is very proud of this ambitious acquisition.
www.batcon.org /batsmag/v10n3-1.html   (1029 words)

  
 Lakestay- Bracken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Just a hundred years ago bracken was still fairly marginal because there were more cattle grazing and trampling down the bracken shoots and farm manpower was greater to cut the bracken to use as winter bedding for the cattle.
As Pearson and Pennington state in their landscape study bracken was cut by hand by the Victorians and this kept the plant under control.
Bracken loves acid soils hence its failure to overwhelm the limestone hills in the Yorkshire Dales in the same way it has in Cumbria.
www.lakestay.co.uk /bracken.html   (916 words)

  
 Michael B. Bracken: Yale School of Public Health
Professor Bracken's primary research interest is the epidemiology of diseases of pregnancy and newborns, emphasizing environmental and genetic risks for causation and iatrogenic factors in patient care.
Professor Bracken is Co-Director of the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, which conducts research in obstetric, perinatal, and neonatal disease.
A former President of the American College of Epidemiology and currently President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Professor Bracken is a Fellow of Green College, Oxford University and serves as consultant to national and international governmental agencies and private corporations.
publichealth.yale.edu /faculty/bracken.html   (402 words)

  
 Bracken's Gold Rush
The store was founded in 1984 by Todd Bracken, who began climbing the professional jewelry ladder at the age of nine, learning to make jewelry in his father's store in Illinois.
It was Todd's lifetime fascination with artifacts, museums and history that led to the design and creation of a unique line of fine jewelry in which each piece appears to have been crafted centuries ago.
Though Bracken's is guided by old-world skills and ethics, the business is run with state of the art equipment.
www.brackensgoldrush.com /brackens_jewelry.htm   (474 words)

  
 Bracken County, Kentucky Genealogical Records Information
Bracken County, the twenty-third county in order of formation, is located at Kentucky's northern border, along the Ohio River.
One of the earliest settlers of Bracken County, who arrived during the 1770s, was William Bracken, a trapper and Indian fighter for whom the county is named.
Bracken County's economy was largely agricultural; its chief crops before the Civil War were tobacco and corn.
www.mykentuckygenealogy.com /ky_county/bra.htm   (1008 words)

  
 Bruce A. Bracken, Ph.D. - Vita
Bracken, B. A., Keith, L. K., Walker, K. Clinical Assessment of Behavior: School and Parent Forms.
Bracken, B. Ipsative profile stability of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children and the Bracken Basic Concept Scale.
Bracken, B. The use of adaptive behavior as a means of Identifying White, Black, and Hispanic gifted children.
www.wm.edu /education/Faculty/Bracken/vita.html   (689 words)

  
 Cain Bracken
William BRACKEN was born in 1825 in Tennessee (per the 1850 census), in 1831 in North Carolina (per the 1860 census), or in 1820 in Tennessee (per the 1870 census).
Mary SMITH WEBSTER BRACKEN EWING died in 1900 and was buried in Wade Cemetery in Shoal Creek Township, Bond Co., Ill. Archie is buried in Wade Cemetery with a military marker which reads, "Archie EWING, Co. H 29th NUSCI." Archie served as a private in Co. H, 29th U.S. Colored Infantry.
There is a marriage license for Margaret BRACKEN and James EWING on 7 Aug 1862, in Bond Co., Ill. James EWING is the son of George EWING and is on the 1860 census of Bond Co., Ill. (household 1557) with his father.
www.freeafricanamericans.com /free_Bracken.htm   (5206 words)

  
 Welcome to Bat Conservation International
By dawn, Bracken’s colony alone will have consumed some 200 tons of flying insects, many of them pests that wreak millions of dollars in damage on the region's corn and cotton crops.
Until the visitors' center and other facilities are in place, Bracken Cave must remain open only on select nights and almost exclusively for BCI members.
Many centuries ago, the great bat colony of Bracken Cave soared over a rolling landscape of waist-high prairie grasses and open savannahs studded with ancient oaks and dappled with red-berried agarita and twisted persimmon.
www.batcon.org /home/index.asp?idPage=56   (739 words)

  
 Brendan Bracken
A member of the Conservative Party, Bracken was elected to the House of Commons in 1929.
Bracken lost his Cabinet post after the 1945 General Election.
The 1922 Committee was addressed by Brendan Bracken, that kind-hearted, garrulous, red-headed gargoyle, whom I have always considered a fraud, au fond: he is an indifferent Minister, promising all and doing little - inoperative in fact, and prejudiced.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jbracken.htm   (271 words)

  
 Bracken County, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White burley tobacco, a light, adaptable leaf that revolutionized the industry, was first produced in 1867 from Bracken County seed.
Bracken Academy 1790-1820 (Merged with the Methodist College)
Brooksville Independent-Graded School District 1899-1925 (Becomes part of Bracken County Schools in 1925 as a sub district, shut down in 1946, school renamed Bracken County High School)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bracken_County,_Kentucky   (800 words)

  
 Team Bracken
Bracken KTM rider Matt Wynstanley is now 42 points clear in the 450 Class British Supermoto Championship - Round 3 report.
James Haydon will race a Bracken 450 at Lydd British Supermoto Championship round on 20/21 March.
If you think you have what it takes to be sponsored by Bracken (and obviously it would help if you were racing a BMW or KTM) send your detailed proposal describing what you can do for us to the usual address, marked for the attention of Jon Watson-Miller.
www.bracken.co.uk /racing   (264 words)

  
 College of Business - Bracken Center, MSU-Bozeman
Bracken had a longtime relationship with the College and was a member of the College's National Board of Advisors.
Bracken was known as a visionary with respect to the College's efforts to emphasize undergraduate education, excellence in teaching, and strong faculty-supported learning experiences for students.
The Bracken Center is the focal point of the undergraduate student mission of the College of Business.
www.montana.edu /cob/bracken/brackenhome.htm   (268 words)

  
 Bracken County Ky. BBS
K. Roxanne Taylor of San Diego, CA and Brandon Grawe of Brooksville, KY are proud to announce their marriage which took place on September 16, 2006 on St. Catalina Island in Cali-fornia.
Samantha is a 1999 graduate of Campbell County High School in Alexandria, KY. She...
Students from BCHS were among the 403 students from 27 area schools that attended the fourth annual Future Educators of America Regional Conference hosted by Morehead State University’s Teacher Recruitment Program and the Future Teacher Corps on Monday, October 30th.
www.brackenbbs.com   (503 words)

  
 Forest Idyll, Bracken Library’s Popular Naked Lady Statue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
To bring original artwork into Bracken Library, Dr. Arthur W. Hafner, Dean of University Libraries, invites interested Ball State faculty, students, and staff to express interest in exhibiting their original artwork in Bracken.
The popular statue, that has been a long-time resident in Bracken Library, is from the collection of Frank C. Ball and is on loan to the University Libraries by the Ball State University Museum of Art.
Visit Bracken and appreciate the artwork that it hosts, particularly two other statues that it proudly exhibits: Glint of the Sea—A Figure of a Nymph cast in 1924 by artist Chester Beach (1881-1956), and Joy of the Waters cast in 1920 by artist Harriet Frishmuth (1880-1980).
www.bsu.edu /library/article/0,1894,-5572-26012,00.html   (547 words)

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