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The Objective of this Prescribed Burning Guide: To help resource managers plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests by: Explaining the reasons for prescribed burning. · Emphasizing the environmental effectsl · Explaining the importance of weather in prescribed…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, aesthetics, air quality, arthropods, backing fires, competition, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, flank fires, Florida, forage, fuel moisture, hardwoods, headfires, heat effects, humidity, insects, livestock, manuals, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, precipitation, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, soil nutrients, soils, temperature, wildlife habitat management, wind
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: litter, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphate, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, precipitation, runoff, soil leaching, soil nutrients, South Carolina, volatilization
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, decay, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fuel appraisal, fuel types, gases, light, litter, ozone, rural communities, sampling, site treatments, smoke effects, trees
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, general interest, public information, soils, water quality, wildfires, wildlife
'A program of burning experiments was carried out to assess the air pollutant emmissions potential of forest residues in the Pacific Norhtwest. Only the fine fuel component of slash fuelbeds was considered. Ponderosa pine slash, Douglas-fir slash with needles, and Douglas-fir…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, air temperature, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, combustion, coniferous forests, field experimental fires, fine fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire retardants, flammability, fuel appraisal, fuel arrangement, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, humidity, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, live fuels, logging, needles, old growth forests, particulates, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, second growth forests, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'The future role of prescribed fire in management of park and wilderness lands is not as clear to me as the role of natural fire. Its value, at least in certain instances, has been clearly demonstrated. As a tool, even in these cases, it has not been recognized…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Fire Ecology
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, birds, coniferous forests, fire adaptations, fire control, fire management, forest management, forest types, habitat types, lightning, mountains, national parks, natural areas management, nesting, public information, recreation, season of fire, Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum , succession, trees, wildfires, wildlife
From the Summary ... 'Control burning activities within Everglades National Park have expanded notably within the last year and a half. Prior to that time such activities were confined strictly to the pinelands habitat of the Park. The control burn program is now being broadened…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, Casuarina equisetifolia, Conocarpus erectus, everglades, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire adaptations, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, Florida, forbs, forest types, grasses, habitat types, hardwood hammocks, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, hydrology, introduced species, invasive species, Laguncularia racemosa, landscape ecology, marshes, national parks, natural areas management, Panicum, peatlands, pine, Pinus elliottii densa, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, Rhizophora mangle, roads, sampling, season of fire, shrubs, soils, south Florida, Spartina, Sporobolus, succession, succulents, swamps, wetlands, wind, woody plants
From the text ... '[A]ttempts to suppress all natural and man caused fires in the sequoia-mixed conifer forest during the past half century or more have resulted in the accumulation of extreme quantitites of dead and living fuels. This buildup has resulted in what has been…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, age classes, air quality, anthropology, Arctostaphylos patula, bark, Ceanothus, chaparral, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, duff, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire adaptations, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, firing techniques, forbs, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grasses, grasslike plants, habitat types, heat, heavy fuels, herbaceous vegetation, Libocedrus decurrens, litter, livestock, logging, montane forests, mountains, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, organic matter, overstory, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, population density, post fire recovery, Quercus kelloggii, recreation, Ribes roezlii, sampling, season of fire, seedlings, seeds, Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum , shrubs, soils, succession, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, aesthetics, air quality, Andropogon scoparius, Arizona, British Columbia, Calamagrostis rubescens, Canada, Chamaebatia foliolosa, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, Elymus, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forage, forest management, forest types, fuel management, gases, grasses, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, landscape ecology, livestock, Mexico, Montana, montane forests, Muhlenbergia, multiple resource management, national parks, Native Americans, Nebraska, needles, openings, pine, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, public information, Purshia tridentata, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, South Dakota, succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, water, wildlife
About 872,000 acres of forest and agricultural land were burned in Georgia during 1972, releasing an estimated 17,000 tons of particulate matter into the atmosphere. Most of this burning was done in the southwestern half of the State during January, February, and March.…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, coastal plain, combustion, computer programs, fire control, fire hazard reduction, flatwoods, fuel management, Georgia, particulates, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, weather observations, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
The atmospheric trace element abundances associated with agricultural field burning and rural air have been measured for the Willamette Valley of western Oregon. Neutron activation analysis is as used to measure the concentrations of about 26 trace elements in gross air…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, croplands, gases, grasses, human caused fires, Oregon, particulates, pollution, rural communities, sampling, slash and burn, smoke effects, statistical analysis
Prescribed fire is the intentional use of fire to achieve certain land management goals. Over 2 million acres of forest land in the southern United States are treated with this tool each year. The benefits from these burns can be offset by a degradation of air quality due to the…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, backfires, combustion, distribution, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, hardwood forests, Ilex glabra, land management, leaves, litter, needles, particulates, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, Quercus rubra, sampling, Serenoa repens, smoke management, Solidago, wind
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, backfires, crown fires, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, firebreaks, flank fires, forage, forest edges, ground fires, headfires, humus, invasive species, land management, landscape ecology, mineral soils, mortality, multiple resource management, pine forests, Pinus taeda, rate of spread, runoff, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soil management, spot fires, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, water, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, croplands, grasslands, livestock, Oregon, particulates, seed production
Wildland managers in the South use prescribed burning to reduce dangerous fuels, control understory hardwoods, combat disease, facilitate pine regeneration, and improve wildlife habitat. Burning techniques are highly developed, and prescribed burners believe they can use fire…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, competition, education, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, forest management, hardwoods, headfires, logging, multiple resource management, pine forests, plant diseases, public information, regeneration, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, understory vegetation, wilderness fire management, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Air velocity, temperature, and radiant-heat measurements within and around a large free-burning fire
Operation Euroka was a 210,000 square m (50 acres) free-burning mass fire experiment carried out in Queensland, Australia. At the peak of the fire, 42 min after ignition, the maximum average induced horizontal wind velocity at the edge of the fire was 4.2 m/see. The fire was of…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, convection plume, convective heat release, inflow, inflow wind, stationary fire, Acacia harpophylla, Australia, combustion, convection, energy, field experimental fires, fire models, fire size, gases, ignition, low intensity burns, Queensland, radiation, statistical analysis, temperature, wind
In a series of 11 surface burns in old fields at two locations in southern Ontario the environmental factors having the greatest effect on fire severity were fuel moisture content, windspeed and fuel energy. Other environmental factors were of less significance. Changes in soil…
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: fuel moisture, fly ash, nutrient loss, Ontario, soil chemistry, field burn severity, soil depth
Forest land generally produces considerable woody material other than that which is harvested as timber, needed for recycling of nutrients to the soil, or for sheltering wildlife and young forest seedlings. Excess forest residues, both living and dead, are often subject to…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fuels management, silviculture, brush, forest residue, slash
The increasing use of prescribed fire in forest management and the continuing burning of agricultural crop residues creates problems in air pollution. More information is needed on yields of pollutant gases and particulates and how these emissions might be altered by varying…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, agriculture, air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, croplands, decay, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, headfires, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, moisture, particulates, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, sampling, Sequoiadendron giganteum , temperature
I have reviewed, but briefly, the extremely abundant literature on coal formation with reference to the occurrence, development, and characteristics of fossil charcoal, 'fusain.' The findings in petrology, the science of coal formation and development, show that fusain, a fossil…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ash, charcoal, combustion, ecology, ferns, fire regimes, Florida, fossils, lightning, mosses, Nyssa sylvatica, paleoecology, particulates, pine, prehistoric fires, spontaneous combustion, Taxodium distichum, wildfires, woody plants
[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national parks, chance ignition prescribed fires, recreation
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords:
From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: adaptation, brush, brush fires, C - carbon, chemistry, combustion, fire equipment, fuel types, gases, grass fires, grasses, moisture, ozone, particulates, pollution, sampling, wildfires
A record of prehistoric and historic burning of carbonaceous materials may be found in the elemental carbon contents of the sedimentary columns. The widespread dissemination of such carbon as microcrystalline graphite is indicated by its presence in atmospheric dusts collected…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, marine sediments, aerosols, ash, charcoal, combustion, coniferous forests, dust, energy, fossils, fuel types, gases, geology, glaciers, hardwood forest, manganese, Mediterranean habitats, minerals, particulates, savannas, sedimentation, soils, soot, temperature, tropical forest, tundra, wildfires, wind, wood chemistry