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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ash, coastal vegetation, education, fire management, grasses, grasslands, grazing, litter, natural areas management, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, public information, rangeland fires, rangelands, scrub, shrubs, soil nutrients, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Tympanuchus, weed control, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
From the Summary and Conclusions (p.148-149) ... 'In conclusion, there are some basic considerations that must be recognized in evaluating the air-quality aspects of prescribed burning. Most obvious is the fact that we actually know very little about the effects of forest fires…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire management, gases, land management, particulates, smoke management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: fuel management, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, particulates, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, algae, Cladium jamaicense, cover type, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire size, Florida, fuel types, grasslands, laboratory fires, leaves, marshlands, moisture, organic matter, organic soils, peat fires, peatlands, pine forests, post fire recovery, prairies, precipitation, scrub, season of fire, size classes, south Florida, statistical analysis, Taxodium, vegetation surveys, water, wetlands, wind
From the text (p.8-9) ... 'Fire can be friend or foe depending upon how we use it. Our first inclination is to think of all wildfires as bad and all prescribed fires as good, but this isn't necessarily so. The main difference between the two is often really but one of intent.…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, fire management, fire suppression, hardwood forests, hardwoods, histories, landscape ecology, pine forests, Pinus, succession, US Forest Service, wildfires
From the text ... 'In the southern United States, we have learned to use fire as an effective, inexpensive tool for applying specific management treatments to our forests. Hazard or rough reduction is the principal use of prescribed fire, but seedbed and site preparation,…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, Georgia, headfires, laboratory fires, litter, Pinus taeda, plantations, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife
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
From the text... 'The Simpson Timber Company (Simpson) conducted a slash burn of forest material on seventy-eight acres of its property situated about nine miles west of Olympia, Washington. The burn produced noticeable smoke and particulate fallout in the Olympia area, which…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, liability, logging, natural resource legislation, pollution, reforestation, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington
From the text...'Agricultural and silvicultural burning restrictions, part of the recently adopted Department of Pollution Control open burning rule, become effective October 1, 1971. The section of the rule relating to burning by agriculture and forestry operations reads: 17-5.…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning intervals, fire management, Florida, forest management, grasses, health factors, logging, marshes, pine forests, pollution, roads, rural communities, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildlife, wildlife management, wood
A study of the relation of daily levels of air pollution and mortality in New York City for the ten year period 1963-1972 has recently been completed. This study, which will be published shortly, confirms our preliminary finding reported at the June 1974 Denver meeting of the…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, energy, gases, mortality, New York, particulates, pollution, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, temperature
The rate of rise of the convection columns above experimental fires depends on the rate of average atmospheric temperature lapse in the lower 1,000 meters. The type of fuels used in these fires will probably produce a mass fire if the burning area is 27 plus or minus 2 hectares…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air temperature, convection, energy, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire size, fuel management, fuel types, ignition, Juniperus osteosperma, light, Nevada, photography, Pinus, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, wind
Losses to the atmosphere of our nutrient elements, phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg), caused by slash burning a logged-over mixed forest coupe in the Florentine Valley in Tasmania, were estimated by weighing and sampling the slash on marked plots…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, biomass, calcium, chemical elements, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, heathlands, leaching, litter, logging, magnesium, nutrients, phosphorus, plant nutrients, K - potassium, regeneration, sampling, slash, slash and burn, Tasmania, temperature, volatilization, wood
'...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
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, aesthetics, air quality, coniferous forests, education, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grazing, hunting, hydrology, logging, national forests, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, recreation, runoff, sedimentation, streams, understory vegetation, Washington, water quality, watershed management, wildlife
Prescribed burning has become an indispensable tool of forest management in the South. It is a scientific prescription designed to cure ailments of the forest - ailments that include undesirable fuel accumulations, the encroachment of unwanted species, unattractive wildlife…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning intervals, competition, cover, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, ground cover, land use, light burning, minerals, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, pine forests, smoke effects, smoke management, soil organic matter, understory vegetation, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, elevation, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, firing techniques, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, logging, mountains, Oregon, pine forests, rural communities, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, Washington, wind
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, gases, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke management, western Australia
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: clearcutting, logging, pine forests, Pinus contorta, smoke behavior, wind, Wyoming
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burning intervals, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, germination, grasses, microorganisms, needles, pine, Pinus radiata, plant communities, post fire recovery, seedlings, smoke behavior, smoke effects, wildfires
We report a study of three intense forest fires, all of area about 30 km2, in which convection extended to heights ranging from 2150 m to 4300 m. The observations taken comprise surface-level wind, temperature, and humidity; mean temperature, temperature fluctuations, and…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: jarrah, Australia, entrainment, Eucalyptus spp., turbulence, temperature gradient, wildfire, inflow
This paper examines the factors that lead to the genesis of fire whirlwinds over flat terrain. Also presented is an estimate of the number of days one might expect to encounter meteorological conditions that permit such formations.
[This publication is referenced in the "…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: atmospheric stability, burning, fire control, vortex, whirls, fire intensity, fire suppression, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreak, heat effects, humidity, laboratory fires, mineral soil, Minnesota, national forests, Pinus banksiana, Quercus, season of fire, slash, smoke behavior, spot fires, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, vortices, water, weather observations, wildlife refuges, wind, Wisconsin
Pollutants sampled during the burning of 30 lb ponderosa pine fuel beds yielded emission factors for CO, hydrocarbon gases, and particulate matter of 146, 8.4, and 9.1 lb/ton of fuel, respectively. When similar beds were treated with diammonium phosphate flame retardant, these…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, PM - particulate matter, slash burning, pollutants, flame retardants, air quality, combustion, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, gases, humidity, laboratory fires, CH4 - methane, mopping up, national forests, phosphate, pine forests, slash, wildfires