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Person:
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, leaves, particulates

From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, education, fire control, fire danger rating, firing techniques, forest management, gases, histories, lightning caused fires, pollution, US Forest Service

Most western state laws pertaining to prescribed burning do not specifically deal with range rehabilitation. Prescribed burns require a burning permit issued by the State Forester, or his equivalent, prior to ignition during closed fire seasons. Air quality standards have been…
Person:
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, arid regions, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, combustion, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, hydrocarbons, ignition, liability, logging, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, particulates, pollution, post-fire recovery, season of fire, site treatments, slash, smoke management, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Utah, Washington, water, water quality, wind

It is now well established that fire plays an important part as a periodic disturbing influence on many of the forest types of North America. The species composition of such forests has undergone selection as a result of the regularity of fires during their history so that the…
Person:
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Betula, biomass, Calluna, charcoal, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, Europe, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire management, forest types, heathlands, lakes, nutrient cycling, phosphorus, Pinus, pollen, K - potassium, sedimentation, smoke effects, succession, wildfires

'...With that impressionistic gallop through history as a backdrop, let me touch upon some of the technical material that has come to light as a result of urban fires and the research devoted to their prevention and cure. Perhaps the dominant area of uncertainty and of study…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, fire case histories, fire protection, fire suppression, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, heat, histories, ignition, Illinois, incendiary fires, laboratory fires, light, New York, pine forests, radiation, rate of spread, surface fires, urban habitats, wind

The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the combustion products of carbonaceous fuels is a well known phenomenon. Several PAW are known to be carcinogenic in animals. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is the most well-known and studied compound of those classified by the…
Person:
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: carcinogen, forest fires, laboratory experiments, PAH - polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons

Prescribed burning produces particulate and gaseous air pollutants in relatively small amounts over the course of an entire year. However, on any given day, the pollutants resulting from prescribed burning may constitute a major fraction of the local or regional air pollution…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, backfires, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, environmental impact analysis, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind

The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Person:
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, biomass consumption, carbon cycle, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Germany, agriculture, air quality, bibliography, brush, C - carbon, combustion, cover type conversion, deforestation, forest management, forestation, human caused fires, lightning, lightning caused fires, logging, sedimentation, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, temperate forests, tropical forest, tropical regions, wildfires, wood

From the Conclusion ... 'An ecological review on air pollution as a whole, and in particular the relationship of control burning to such possible pollution warrants the following conclusions: (1) In spite of the tremendous amounts of pollutant materials released into the…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, bibliographies, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, education, gases, histories, lightning, lightning caused fires, national forests, N - nitrogen, particulates, pollution, public information, smoke management, US Forest Service, urban habitats, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management

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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: calcium, Calluna vulgaris, fire intensity, heathlands, iron, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphorus, plant nutrients, K - potassium, volatilization, zinc

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a highly toxic, nonirritating gas. One of the products of combustion, it is invisible, odorless, tasteless, and slightly lighter than air. But smoke, another combustion product, is visible. And when smoke is present, it is highly likely that CO and other…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire fighting, CO - carbon monoxide, forest fires, CO poisoning, fire fighting vehicles, fire resistant materials, air quality, C - carbon, fire suppression, wildfires