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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
From the text ... 'How do some of us get through those dark days, learn from our mistakes, and continue to do our jobs as best we can? What makes some of us 'bounce back' from a serious accident, a fatality, or on escaped prescribed fire and continue to do the work on the land…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola National Forest, education, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, firing techniques, ignition, national forests, north Florida, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, season of fire, smoke effects, spot fires, Utah, wildfires
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
From the text (p.2) ... 'These proceedings are the culmination of that initial effort: not the final word. This Summit will be followed in short order by a series of meetings to develop a strategic future where the use of prescribed fire is a welcomed certainty.'
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, litter, nutrient cycling
From the text (p.109) ... 'These results provide insight into a way to increase germination and to potentially increase the number of P. lewtonii plants, and they support the idea that smoke-stimulated germination may have evolved in some south-central Florida plants. The fact…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Archbold Biological Station, Bejaria, Callicarpa americana, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Crotolaria, Dicerandra frutescens, Eryngium cuneifolium, fire frequency, fire management, fire sensitive plants, flatwoods, Florida, Garberia heterophylla, germination, Lake Wales Ridge, Liatris ohlingerae, Pityopsis graminifolia, Polygala lewtonii, Polygonella basiramia, Polygonella robusta, range management, Rhus copallina, sandhills, scrub, season of fire, seed germination, seeds, Serenoa repens, shrublands, Sisyrinchium, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, Ziziphus celata
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
In the Mediterranean basin, fires are a major concern for forest and shrubland ecosystems. We studied flammability, its seasonality and its relationship with leaf moisture and volatile terpene content and emission in the dominant species of a Mediterranean shrubland and forest…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Arbutus, Arbutus unedo, Cistus spp., Cistus albidus, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, Erica, Erica multiflora, Europe, fire management, flammability, forest management, Globularia, humidity, leaves, Mediterranean habitats, moisture, Phillyrea, Phillyrea latifolia, Pinus halepensis, Pistacia, plant physiology, precipitation, Quercus, Quercus ilex, Rosmarinus, Rosmarinus officinalis, season of fire, shrublands, soil moisture, Spain, statistical analysis, temperature, vegetation surveys, water, wildfires, wind, Arbutus unedo, Cistus albidus, emission and content of volatile compounds, Erica multiflora, Globularia alypum, Phillyrea latifolia, Pinus halepensis, Pistacia lentiscus, Quercus ilex, Rosmarinus officinalis
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, unburned, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, unburned, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, unburned, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, light wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2008 Clover Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sequoia National Forest, California, Tulare County, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2008 Clover Wildland Fire Use Fire
Problem statement: Forest fires are especially frequent around the Mediterranean Sea basin in the summer period and might be able to release naturally-occurring and man-made radionuclides from plant biomass and inject them into the atmosphere. The impact of this radioactivity on…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: radionuclides, polonium, Mediterranean, radioactivity, forest fires, atmospheric deposition, PM - particulate matter, cigarettes
Fire is a frequent and severe disturbance that affects plants on large scales, especially in Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTE). Plants have evolved traits that confer resilience to fire and other disturbances, ensuring their persistence in fire-prone systems, but MTE floras…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, wildfires, disturbance, resprouting, serotiny, seed dormancy, seed germination, Middle East, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats, plant adaptive traits, flammability, germination, lignotuber, resprouting, serotiny
The risk of hospitalisation from bushfire exposure events in Darwin, Australia, is examined. Several local studies have found evidence for the effects of exposure to bushfire particulates on respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions. They have characterised the risk of…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, health factors, particulates, pollution, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, particulates, bush fires, cardiovascular and respiratory hospital admissions, health risk