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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, arthropods, bark, catastrophic fires, climax vegetation, community ecology, conservation, crown fires, decay, dominance (ecology), ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasses, grasslands, hardwoods, human caused fires, Idaho, ignition, insects, land management, light, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, organic matter, Picea, pine forests, pine, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, pioneer species, plant communities, plant diseases, plant growth, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, regeneration, second growth forests, Sequoiadendron giganteum , species diversity (plants), succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, wilderness areas, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1985
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, smoke behavior, smoke management
The legal aspects of prescribed forestry burning in the South fall within two major areas. These are: (1) statutory and regulatory constraints imposed by the states and local government, and (2) liability for property damage and personal injury resulting from escaping fire and…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, liability, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, burning permits, Florida, Georgia, liability, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, smoke management, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia
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Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, 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, smoke management, wilderness fire management
Article discusses burning permits, prescribed fire, land management and smoke management in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, burning permits, education, fire management, firebreaks, Florida, Georgia, land management, liability, roads, smoke management
From the text ... 'Ten years ago there was no known smoke problem in the south from prescribed burning except isolated pockets, or at least we were not aware of them. Today, the smoke problem from prescribed burning varies from being a major problem in some states to no problem…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, education, fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, pollution, smoke management, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, wind
The state forestry agencies in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas experience the same problems in training, program delivery and smoke management. Enforcement and coordination with federal, state and private landowners becomes increasingly important as smoke management comes under…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, fire management, liability, Louisiana, Mississippi, private lands, smoke management, Texas
Consulting foresters are described as a growing force representing the best potential for expanded use of prescribed fire on private nonindustrial forestlands. Recognition by consultants and others of the true costs of prescribed burning is advocated as well as State policies to…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, education, fire equipment, fire management, forest management, Georgia, herbicides, liability, smoke management
The agreement is made and entered into the first day of July 2985, by and between S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control - Air Quality and the S.C. Forestry Commission.
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:
The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to set forth the principles of the working relationship between the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) - Division of Air Quality (DAQ) and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:
From the text:'It*s imperative you have the right messages to explain and justify "prescribed burning.” The messages must be tailored to the audiences you need to reach and be adapted to the delivery system you use to send the messages. All three elements are important — the…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: burning permits, conservation easements, education, fire suppression, land management, logging, public information, reforestation, smoke management, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'The scientific application of fire has proven to be a worthwhile, cost effective land management tool. Our challenge is to develop ways to accomplish this in the face of expanding regulations, tighter controls and reduced numbers of personnel.'
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, fire suppression, forest management, histories, land management, multiple resource management, national forests, national parks, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, smoke management, southern brackenfern
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a tool for land managers to address wildfire…
Person: Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, legal liability, land management, wildfires, smoke management, exceptional event, smoke management plan
Wildland fire emissions degrade air quality and visibility, having adverse economic, health and visibility impacts at large spatial scales globally. Air quality regulations can constrain the goals of landscape resilience and management of fire-dependent ecosystems. Here, we…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Australia, air quality, regulatory policy, smoke management, fire management, health impacts, visibility
Roger Ottmar, Research Forester with the USFS Pacific Northwest Fire & Environmental Research Applications Team, gave a talk on air quality, wildfire smoke components and smoke impacts on human health with an eye to how air quality regulations may impact prescribed burn…
Person: Ottmar
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighter health, air quality, public health, visibility, PM - particulate matter, pollutants, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, water vapor, transportation safety, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, smoke management, smoke exposure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized updates to the 2007 Exceptional Event Rule. This webinar will explore those updates, why changes were made and examine ways in which they may affect fire in the Great Plains, including prescribed fire in areas like the…
Person: Watson
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: exceptional event, air quality, EER - Exceptional Event Rule, Flint Hills, smoke management, BSMP - Basic Smoke Management Practices, Kansas, Oklahoma, tallgrass prairie, invasive species, eastern redcedar, cattle, smoke management plan, fire return interval, burn interval
Across leading environmental challenges-fire management, climate change, deforestation - there is growing awareness of the need to better account for diverse stakeholder perceptions across complex, multi-level governance arrangements. Perceptions often condition behavior,…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, deforestation, peat fires, C - carbon, Indonesia, policy, Q method, haze, conservation, transboundary governance, tropical peatlands, climate change, transboundary haze, management, consequences, biodiversity, agriculture, dynamics, services