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From the text...'The wildfires of 1998 brought another harsh reminder to the people of Florida of the power of natural hazards to destroy property, threaten safety, and cause untold human hardship. Overall, after the firestorm was finally extinguished, the event had caused one…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Chile, coastal forests, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel management, histories, land management, logging, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, public information, scrub, shrublands, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wildfires
From the text...'In the past month and a half 2,214 wildfires (ninety percent of which were started by lightning) have consumed 497,209 acres in Florida. More than forty-five thousand people were evacuated from areas that lay in the path of these fires. Five hundred million…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, general interest, lightning, lightning caused fires, precipitation, public information, wildfires
From the text...'Conditions contributing to Florida's firestorms are similar to problems plaguing Montana forests. Scenes of devastation underscore the need to better manage forests.'
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Montana, public information, smoke effects, wildfires
Investigations of the ecological, atmospheric chemical, and climatic impacts of contemporary fires in tropical vegetation have received increasing attention during the last 10 years. Little is known, however, about the impacts of climate changes on tropical vegetation and…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Andropogon virginicus, bibliographies, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, Central America, cover type conversion, deforestation, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fragmentation, fuel loading, climate change, grasses, Hakea sericea, human caused fires, Imperata, India, Indonesia, introduced species, invasive species, land management, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, Melaleuca quinquenervia, Mexico, montane forests, Pennisetum, Pinus, plant communities, Poa, post-fire recovery, precipitation, savannas, South America, Southeast Asia, species diversity (plants), storms, temperature, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national forests, national parks, rural communities, Russia, suppression, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, cover, fire danger rating, fire management, fragmentation, human caused fires, ignition, land use planning, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire regimes, climate change, emission estimates, biomass burning, pre-industrial conditions, Adenostoma, agriculture, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, coastal plain, Appalachian Mountains, coniferous forests, cropland fires, croplands, deserts, ecotones, ecology, everglades, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel models, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, Juniperus, land use, landscape ecology, logging, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus ponderosa, pocosins, prairie, presettlement fires, Prosopis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, remote sensing, rural communities, savannas, scrub, shrub fuels, shrublands, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, climate model, global change, Europe, Abies balsamea, age classes, Alberta, Betula spp., bibliographies, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Finland, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, climate change, grasslands, histories, humidity, Iva, Lake States, land use, Minnesota, Montana, New Brunswick, North Dakota, Norway, Ontario, Picea spp., pine hardwood forests, Pinus spp., population density, Populus spp., precipitation, Quebec, Rocky Mountains, Scandinavia, season of fire, South Dakota, species diversity, succession, Sweden, temperature, Vermont, wildfires, wind, Wyoming
From the text...'In the Lake Tahoe Basin, organizations and individuals are leveraging the community's high interest in lake clarity and fire danger to construct complex, dynamic models for adaptive management. Models show citizens how the ecosystem works so that they can make…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, algae, calcium, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, firebrands, forest management, fuel management, lakes, land use, Nevada, N - nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus, plant growth, runoff, sedimentation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, state parks, US Forest Service, urban habitats, water quality, watershed management