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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest
Keywords: lightning caused fires, remote sensing
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, smoke management, weather observations
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, smoke management
The frequency of forest fires during the past 600 yr was studied on 281 sample plots within boreal forest ecosystems in a river valley in northern Sweden. Fire scars in living and dead trees were used for dating past fires. Before fire suppression started in the 19th century the…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Aconitum septentrionale, age classes, agriculture, bark, Betula pubescens, Betula verrucosa, boreal forests, Calluna vulgaris, charcoal, Cladonia, clearcutting, community ecology, coniferous forests, crown fires, dendrochronology, dominance (ecology), ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evolution, fire control, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fungi, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, land use, landscape ecology, lichens, lightning caused fires, mortality, mosaic, national forests, overstory, Picea abies, pine forests, pioneer species, plant diseases, plant growth, plant physiology, pollen, Populus, post fire recovery, precipitation, seedlings, shrublands, shrubs, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, succession, Sweden, topography, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, vegetation surveys, wildfires, windthrows
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Appalachian Mountains, bibliographies, Calamagrostis cainii, community ecology, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, genetics, Great Smoky Mountains, introduced species, land management, multiple resource management, national parks, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, recreation, species diversity (plants), succession, Sus scrofa, Tennessee, threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, Florida, fuel moisture, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, organic soils, particulates, peat fires, pollution, Quebec, soil temperature, soils, south Florida
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal vegetation, fire management, grasslands, natural areas management, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, rangeland fires, rangelands, shrubs, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Tympanuchus, weed control, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, gases, New York, old fields, particulates, smoke management, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cover, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, fuel management, Mediterranean habitats, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, everglades, Florida, particulates, south Florida, wetlands, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1979
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, combustion, energy, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, S - sulfur, volatilization, wood
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, fire hazard reduction, fuel accumulation, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, light, ozone, pollution, sampling, season of fire, statistical analysis, swamps, western Australia, wildfires, wind
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, gases, particulates, pollution, wood
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., agriculture, air quality, annual plants, Artemisia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, boreal forests, burning intervals, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fuel types, gases, grasses, heat effects, human caused fires, Juniperus, litter, national forests, nutrient cycling, organic matter, ozone, perennial plants, Picea spp., Pinus edulis, post fire recovery, precipitation, sampling, savannas, season of fire, shrubs, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires, woody plants
Three questions regarding fire research needs were asked of 355 respondents at 68 western USDA Forest Service locations. Responses have been analyzed, summarized, and categorized. Results provide guidance for defining and setting priorities in wildfire research in the western…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: fire danger rating, forest management, fuel management, land management, land use, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Andropogon cabanisii, Aristida stricta, Avicennia germinans, Big Cypress National Preserve, birds, Cladium jamaicense, coastal forests, competition, fire danger rating, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firing techniques, Florida, fuel types, game birds, grasses, hardwood hammocks, hardwoods, human caused fires, incendiary fires, lightning caused fires, mammals, marshes, particulates, peat fires, pine forests, Pinus elliottii densa, post fire recovery, Sabal palmetto, salt marshes, Serenoa repens, small mammals, south Florida, succession, swamps, Taxodium distichum, wetlands, wildlife habitat management
The levels of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) were determined in downtown Caracas in order to have a first approach to the problem related to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in this city. Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela is located 10.30°N and 66.7°E in a valley at an altitude of…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, fire management, hydrocarbons, mountains, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, temperature, tropical regions, Venezuela, wildfires
A field investigation was initiated in the summer 1978 to quantify the influence of meteorological factors, ignition method, and fuel conditions on the behaviour of smoke plumes from open field burning. Measurements of air quality and meteorological conditions were performed…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arthropods, backfires, field experimental fires, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasslands, headfires, humidity, ignition, insects, Oregon, particulates, photography, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wind
Plume trajectory measurements were made at a power station on the South African Highveld under mainly near-neutral stability conditions. The maximum distance of observation ranged from 1050 to 6750 m. The fit of the models of Briggs (1969, 1970) and of Moore (1973, 1974) to the…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, heat effects, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, wind
Until the end of July 1977, the fires in the forested and brush-covered land of California had been fewer than expected. The summer fire season was well along, and with less than average acreage burned, protection agencies were encouraged. Then a series of events dramatically…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: chaparral, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, lightning caused fires, national forests, northern California, smoke effects, southern California, topography, wind
From the summary ... 'The basic routes leading to product formation in fires are identified and involve the thermal and thermal oxidative decomposition of the polymeric material. These products are released into the relatively mobile atmosphere of the fire where further…
Person:
Year: 1977
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, chemical elements, combustion, decomposition, experimental fires, laboratory fires, pollution
From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conservation, education, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwoods, invasive species, liability, pine forests, public information, smoke management, Smokey Bear program
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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: chaparral, fire equipment, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fuel appraisal, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, logging, site treatments, smoke management