Type
Topic
Region
Year
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3
From the text...'The wildfires of 1998 brought another harsh reminder to the people of Florida of the power of natural hazards to destroy property, threaten safety, and cause untold human hardship. Overall, after the firestorm was finally extinguished, the event had caused one…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Chile, coastal forests, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel management, histories, land management, logging, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, public information, scrub, shrublands, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wildfires
Prescribed fire is an indispensable tool used by the Florida Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in stewardship of its preserves. The inherent complexity associated with utilizing fire effectively, however, poses numerous challenges. To help understand and learn from fire's…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: computer programs, education, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, GIS, histories, ignition, post fire recovery, scrub, smoke management, south Florida, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), topography
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, climate model, global change, Europe, Abies balsamea, age classes, Alberta, Betula spp., bibliographies, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Finland, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, climate change, grasslands, histories, humidity, Iva, Lake States, land use, Minnesota, Montana, New Brunswick, North Dakota, Norway, Ontario, Picea spp., pine hardwood forests, Pinus spp., population density, Populus spp., precipitation, Quebec, Rocky Mountains, Scandinavia, season of fire, South Dakota, species diversity, succession, Sweden, temperature, Vermont, wildfires, wind, Wyoming