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With evidence of increasing wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface zones in the U.S. West and elsewhere, understanding intended evacuation behavior is a growing issue for community planners. This research investigates intended evacuation behavior due to wildfire risks, using…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: distribution, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, Mexico, national forests, New Mexico, population density, public information, statistical analysis, wildfires, evacuation, wildfire
On February 28, 2007, a severe smoke event caused by prescribed forest fires occurred in Atlanta, GA. Later smoke events in the southeastern metropolitan areas of the United States caused by the Georgia-Florida wild forest fires further magnified the significance of forest fire…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, Georgia, ozone, particulates, Picoides borealis, pollution, smoke management, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife habitat management
The impact of smoke from forest burning on air quality is a threat to the use of prescribed fire to manage woodlands in the eastern United States. Population shifts from urban centers to the wildland/urban interface have increased human exposures to smoke. Tighter national…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, land management, oak, particulates, Piedmont, pine hardwood forests, pine, Pinus, Quercus, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wind
Of Georgia's 37 million acres, 24.8 million acres are forestland. On an average, 1.2 million acres are prescribed burned each year. Georgia faces two main challenges with their prescribed fire program, air quality and urban sprawl. These two will make it more difficult to obtain…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, education, fire management, fire protection, Florida, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, public information, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station
Air quality concerns are on the increase for a growing population of 9 million Georgians. Metropolitan Atlanta is the epicenter of Georgia's air issues but urbanization along the fall line of the Georgia Piedmont region is affecting air quality for metropolitan statistical areas…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, histories, ozone, particulates, Piedmont, pollution, Polyborus plancus, public information, rural communities, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tennessee, Washington
Communities impacted by fine-particle air pollution (particles with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 mm; PM2.5) from forest fires and residential wood burning require effective, evidence-based exposure-reduction strategies. Public health recommendations during smoke…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, fire management, particulates, pollution, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wood, particulate matter, air quality, indoor air quality, infiltration, air cleaning
The impact of particle emissions by biomass burning is increasing throughout the world. We explored the toxicity of particulate matter produced by sugar cane burning and compared these effects with equivalent mass of traffic-derived particles. For this purpose, BALB/c mice…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, biomass burning, Brazil, croplands, fire management, health factors, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, toxicity, water, sugar cane burning, particulate matter, air pollution, lung mechanics
From the text ... 'Every year, the Boise National Forest prescribed fire program burns an average of 7,000 to 8,000 acres (2,800 to 3,200 ha). The forest is located near Idaho's capital, which is the third largest metropolitan area in the northwest, and introduction of any smoke…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: education, fire management, fire suppression, Idaho, national forests, public information, smoke management
Fire managers must consider air-quality impacts when planning prescribed burns or devising wildfire containment strategies. Particulate matter (PM) is the primary pollutant of concern: it is the major component of smoke and has known detrimental influences on human health and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, fire control, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, humidity, particulates, precipitation, radiation, smoke management, temperature, wildfires, wind, air pollution, wildland fire, PM2.5, PM10
This session will include information on prescribed fire managers and public relations; the importance of rules and regulations governing the use of fire and why we need to be part of the solution, not part of the problem; standards of conduct and ethics related to the use of…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management, Florida, Georgia, public information, smoke management
Most studies of wildland fire and residential development have focused on the cost of firefighting and solutions such as fuel reduction and fire-safe home building. Although some studies quantify the number of homes being built near forests, little research has indicated the…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: forest fires, western United States, wildfire, residential development
Wildfire risks for California under four climatic change scenarios were statistically modeled as functions of climate, hydrology, and topography. Wildfire risks for the GFDL and PCM global climate models and the A2 and B1 emissions scenarios were compared for 2005-2034, 2035-…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfire risk, air quality, climate change, property damage, PCM scenario-parallel climate model, wildfires, climatology, coniferous forests, elevation, fine fuels, fire damage, fire danger rating, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, hydrology, grasslands, moisture, Nevada, precipitation, range management, shrublands, soil moisture, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, vegetation surveys
Resolving environmental impacts caused by the wildland–urban interface (WUI) expansion such as wildlife habitat fragmentation, or increased fire risk entails an accurate delineating of WUI boundary and its dynamics prediction. This study identified WUIs throughout the 11 states…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire suppression, Florida, fragmentation, Kentucky, Georgia, land management, landscape ecology, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, population density, remote sensing, rural communities, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, South Carolina, statistical analysis, Tennessee, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, Virginia, water quality, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Atmospheric measurements of semivolatile organic compounds (SOCs) were made at Mt. Bachelor Observatory (MBO), located in Oregon's Cascade Range, to understand the trans-Pacific and regional transport of SOCs from urban areas. High volume air sampling (~644 m3 for 24 h periods)…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, C - carbon, Cascades Range, chemical compounds, chlorine, gases, hydrocarbons, Oregon, sampling, smoke management, soils, vegetation surveys, volatilization, wildfires
An unanticipated wind shift led to the advection of plumes from two prescribed burning sites that impacted Atlanta, GA, producing a heavy smoke event late in the afternoon on February 28, 2007. Observed PM2.5 concentrations increased to over 140 mg/m3 and O3 concentrations up to…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, gases, Georgia, ozone, K - potassium, rate of spread, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, urban habitats, wildfires, wind
A suite of particulate, gaseous and meteorological measurements during the Pittsburgh Supersite experiment were used to characterize the impact of the 2002 Quebec wildfires on pollutant concentrations and physical and chemical processes dominant in the region. Temporal trends in…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, boreal fire, pollutant concentrations, Quebec, 2002 wildfires, fire emissions, urban emissions