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Fire is a natural phenomenon in Madrean Province ecosystems. Suppression of natural fire has altered ecosystem processes, however. Recognition of these alterations has led to the adoption of let-burn policies by many management agencies, but a let-burn policy has become less…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: aesthetics, Arizona, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel loading, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, hydrology, liability, lightning caused fires, Madrean habitats, national forests, national parks, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (chance ignition), private lands, public information, seed production, smoke effects, thinning, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, natural fire, public safety, public lands, UNINFORMED PUBLIC
Mega-fires are expected to increase in the Western United States. The state of the science suggests that the best mitigation to prevent destructive forest fires is to reintroduce ecologically beneficial fire, but this can only be accomplished with public support. The objective…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire management policy, nuisance complaints, public acceptance, smoke management, Sierra Nevada, air pollution, health impacts
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Person: Lahm
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, smoke impacts, ARA - Air Resource Advisor, smoke forecast, agency coordination, public communication, air quality
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Person: Lahm
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
Objectives: During the period of June-September 2014, the Northwest Territories (NWT) experienced its worst wildfire season on record, with prolonged smoke events and poor air quality. In the context of climate change, this study sought to qualitatively explore the lived…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: mental health, physical health and conditioning, adaptation, climate change, subarctic, NWT - Northwest Territories, Canada, interviews, air quality
The capacity of wildland fire science and technology in Canada is not keeping pace with the growing complexity of wildland fire. Fire seasons are becoming longer, fire events are becoming more severe, and experts predict that the area burned on an annual basis could double by…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, public safety, fire science, wildland fire, Indigenous knowledge, fire management, resilience, fire research
From the text...'This conceptual guide, Land Management Considerations in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems, provides baseline information for addressing fire management considerations in the Information/Assessment Phase of land management planning. The fire-related considerations are: 1…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, land management, landscape ecology, national forests, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus monticola, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus strobus, public information, smoke management, succession, surface fires, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, dead fuels, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire frequency, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, GIS, health factors, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, Larix lyallii, logging, Montana, natural resource legislation, Nevada, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, public information, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This conference provided a forum in which resource specialists, managers, researchers, and other interested people could share their collective experiences, opinions, and informational needs on 1) the effects of fire on the resources, and 2) fire management in the Madrean…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest, International
Keywords: fire management, Madrean Province, research needs, air quality, community ecology, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire intensity, fire management planning, flame length, fire regimes, forest management, GIS - geographic information system, grazing, livestock, Madrean habitats, post-fire recovery, Mexico, rate of spread, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Stand replacement prescribed burning has been applied in Alaska on several occasions. Based on that experience, perspectives can be provided, issues can be discussed, and keys to success can be identified that are applicable to stand replacement prescribed burning activities in…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire regimes, stand replacement, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Alnus spp., Betula spp., boreal forest, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, land management, lichen moss fuels, overstory, particulates, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Populus tremuloides, private lands, public information, Salix spp., smoke management, taiga, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife refuges
Public support is important to all restoration efforts on public lands. Some types of restoration activities are easier for the public to support than others. Restoring wetlands, habitat restoration for salmon or burrowing owls, and vegetative rehabilitation are generally…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: fire regimes, fire restoration, Montana, public lands, Bitterroot National Forest, public support, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, hardwood forest, health factors, pine forests, public information, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, smoke effects, woody fuels
This webinar addresses additional issues and questions that arose during the original webinar, “Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges." Moderator: Mike Zupko, Executive Director, Wildland Fire Leadership Council. Panelists: Pete Lahm, Smoke Manager, U.S.…
Person: Zupko, Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke management, wildfires, air quality, smoke dispersion, public relations, agencies, public involvement
In this report, the Commission calls for transformational culture change in its forest management practices. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in December 2017 that approximately 27 million trees had died statewide on federal, state and private lands since…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, forest management, fire management, tree mortality, bark beetle, drought, natural fire regime, carbon sequestration, air quality, public awareness
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Person: McCumber
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Massachusetts, public relations, burn window, silviculture, mechanical treatments