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Between June and November 2000, fourteen focus groups were held in four selected sites to elicit and document the range of perspectives, concepts and lexicon for discussing fire management and fuel treatment. Scales for fuel treatment acceptance factors such as fire knowledge,…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, coniferous forests, cutting, deforestation, drought, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, grasses, grazing, herbicide, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, Lake States, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Michigan, moisture, national forests, national parks, nutrients, pine forests, plantations, post-fire recovery, precipitation, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, Sierra Nevada, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species, understory vegetation, wind, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
As fire policy and management take on a greater role in land agencies, a better understanding is needed of public opinion, particularly of homeowners who are most affected by wildland fires. This research assessed homeowners' attitudes toward three fuel management approaches -…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: Michigan, public opinion, coniferous forests, Florida, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage, property damage, fire damage protection, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, forest management, fuel management, land management, lightning caused fires, National Fire Plan, pine forests, public information, statistical analysis, thinning, wildfires
Wildfires create damages in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) that total hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the United States. Understanding how fires are produced in built-up areas near and within fire prone landscapes requires evaluating and quantifying the roles…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: econometrics, air quality, risk analysis, wildfires, production functions, burning permits, catastrophic fires, climatology, computer program, drought, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire damage, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injury, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, flame length, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, human caused fires, ignition, incendiary fires, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, Nyssa aquatica, population density, population ecology, private lands, public information, riparian habitats, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, slash, statistical analysis, swamps, Taxodium distichum, US Forest Service, wetlands
The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire use, air quality, backing fire, burning permits, education, fire equipment, fire management, firebreak, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel management, headfires, ignition, land use, mopping up, liability, multiple resource management, public information, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
Transboundary haze pollution as a result of indiscriminate land clearance by fire has significant health and economic impacts on member states of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN). Meanwhile the impact of the associated carbon emissions, ecological disturbance…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Prevention, Fire Behavior, Regulations and Legislation, Emissions and Smoke, Social Science, Economics, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, air quality, C - carbon, fire management, forest management, smoke management, land management, air pollution, biodiversity, haze, peat swamp forest, socioeconomics, Southeast Asia, Borneo, conservation, Kalimantan, mortality, drought
Land activities contribute ~18% of total greenhouse gas emissions produced in Australia. To help reduce these emissions, the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) was implemented in 2011 to encourage land projects, which reduce the production of greenhouse gases and/or sequester…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, energy, greenhouse gases, Northern Territory of Australia, Queensland, western Australia, Australia, fire management, range management, land management, rangelands, savannas, aboriginal, carbon sequestration, carbon credits, environmental services, property rights
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has become a central dimension of the contemporary international forest regime. The mechanism seeks to reward actors for keeping or restoring forests as a means to reduce carbon emissions. Carbon rights, here…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, conservation easements, deforestation, fire management, smoke management, carbon rights, conservation easements, REDD+, payments for environmental services
In their classic article Allen and Gould (Allen, G.M., and E.M. Gould. 1986. Complexity, wickedness, and public forests. J. For. 84(4):20 -24) stated that the most daunting problems associated with public forest management had a ''wicked'' element: ''Wicked problems share…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, climate change, Idaho, land management, liability, Montana, mosaic, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, private lands, Pseudotsuga menziesii, smoke management, thinning, Washington, wicked problems, thinning
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, duff, education, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, hardwood forests, hydrogen, Juniperus, mopping up, New Mexico, O - oxygen, particulates, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Tsuga, Utah, wildfires
The longleaf pine ecosystem is one of the most biologically diverse in North America, supporting hundreds of plant and animal species. Because of its timber and many non-timber benefits, there is strong interest among forestry professionals, conservation groups, and the public…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, forest management, climate change, habitat conversion, land use, logging, longleaf pine, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, old growth forests, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plantations, private lands, rural communities, slash, slash pine, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildlife habitat management
Tropospheric ozone (O3) negatively impacts human health and ecosystems, and is a greenhouse gas. Wildfires are a source of tropospheric O3, and studies show that wildfires are increasing in North America. In this study, we present a critical review of O3 production from…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, fire intensity, smoke behavior, wildfires, air quality, greenhouse gases, N - nitrogen, ozone, pollution, fire management, smoke management, ozone production, wildfires, air quality impacts, ozone exceedances, ozone photochemistry
From the text (pp.6-7) ... 'Another [reason periodic low-intensity fires have ceased to provide forest and land maintenance] is the culture of fire suppression in America deliberately created in the early 20th century to promote a shift to intensive forestry and away from…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, artificial regeneration, backing fires, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, competition, cover, crown scorch, duff, education, FEIS, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, ignition, land use, liability, light, litter, livestock, logging, mineral soils, mortality, N - nitrogen, north Florida, nutrient cycling, pine forests, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, site treatments, slash, soil leaching, stand characteristics, suppression, Tall Timbers Research Station, thinning, trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels
Fire has been a significant ecosystem process in the Southeast for thousands of years. It kept slash pine in the wetter parts of the flatwoods pine forests historically. Today, when slash pine covers a much larger landscape, fire still plays an integral role in its management.…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, browse, burning permits, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, cover, crown scorch, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flatwoods, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, GIS, Gopherus polyphemus, hydrology, insects, invasive species, liability, longleaf pine, mammals, mortality, N - nitrogen, nutrients, old growth forests, pH, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, plantations, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, remote sensing, reptiles, shrubs, slash, slash pine, smoke management, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), Ursus americanus floridanus, vegetation surveys, water quality, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management
As part of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study, we measured the short-term effects of different fuel-management practices on leaf litter decomposition and soil respiration in loblolly pine stands on the upper Piedmont of South Carolina. These stands had been subjected to…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Acer rubrum, biogeochemical cycles, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, combustion, decay, decomposition, ecosystem dynamics, experimental areas, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, leaves, litter, loblolly pine, National Fire Plan, N - nitrogen, nitrogen fixation, Nyssa sylvatica, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus taeda, Pinus virginiana, Quercus, soils, South Carolina, thinning, understory vegetation, Vaccinium
Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, ecological integrity, fire restoration, public lands, wildfire policy, age classes, bibliography, catastrophic fires, climatology, coniferous forests, conservation, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, fire management planning, fire regimes, forest fragmentation, forest types, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grazing, introduced species, invasive species, landscape ecology, livestock, logging, natural resource legislation, old growth forest, plant communities, post-fire recovery, public information, riparian habitats, roads, salvage, animal species diversity, plant species diversity, succession, suppression, thinning, weed control, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife refuges
The information presented in this paper is directed to those concerned with the disposal of agricultural wastes. The purpose of this paper is to provide a concise, up to date report on the approaches followed by the various states in dealing with the disposal of agricultural…
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern, Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, croplands, fire management, firing techniques, human caused fires, hydrocarbons, N - nitrogen
On January 6, 2010, the EPA proposed to strengthen the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone. EPA also proposed an accelerated implementation schedule as part of this Rule. The primary standard is designed to protect public health and the proposal…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, O3 - ozone, ozone, EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, VOC - volatile organic compounds, N - nitrogen, non-attainment area
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, 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, water quality, smoke modeling, pollutants, prescribed natural fire, wildfire, atmospheric dispersion, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, health factors, hydrocarbons, land management, logging, Madrean habitats, natural resource legislation, NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act, N - nitrogen, pollution, chance ignition prescribed fires, slash, smoke management, soils, US Forest Service, wind
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,…
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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
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, biomass, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, computer programs, conifers, decay, diameter classes, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hardwoods, herbicides, humus, ignition, logging, moisture, multiple resource management, national forests, Oregon, organic soils, particulates, pine, post fire recovery, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, season of fire, slash, slash and burn, smoke management, statistical analysis, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, woody fuels
In Florida, natural communities require periodic fires for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Because of public concerns, wildfires can no longer be allowed to perform this mandatory function so prescribed burning is essential to manage these plant and animal communities…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, aesthetics, allelopathy, biogeography, burning permits, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, European settlement, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (humans), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firing techniques, flame length, flatwoods, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, fuel types, herbaceous vegetation, humidity, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, liability, Native Americans, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plant diseases, population density, post-fire recovery, escaped prescribed fires, private lands, public information, rate of spread, reforestation, scrub, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, state forests, state parks, temperature, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind