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From the text ... 'Fire in the habitst is probably the best cure for what ails your habitat. It is a process that was removed from habitat management decades ago and it is necessary to help you restore native bobwhites as part of your recovery plan.'
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, Colinus virginianus, fire dependent species, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, game birds, land management, pine forests, post fire recovery, smoke management, South Carolina, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wildlife habitat management, wind

The challenge for resource managers is to understand and appreciate the wilderness resource. We must embrace a philosophy that allows natural fire to play its natural role, within social and political realities. As we alter the natural processes, we alter the very essence of…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, suppression, wildfires

We know that the natural fire regimes of park and wilderness ecosystems are extremely variable. Past management practices (primarily fire exclusion), other resource constraints (endangered species, air quality), location and shape of preserves, and new natural fire policy…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, chaparral, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel loading, fuel management, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), wilderness fire management, wildfires

The Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) is a biodiversity hotspot with a history of fire that goes back as far as 10 million years. Fire has influenced the evolution of several aspects of the vegetation, including reproduction and life cycles. This study tested how fire by-products such…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat, Brazil, South America, seed dormancy, seed germination, temperature, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, cerrado, grasslands, savannas, tropical regions, Campo Sujo, fire-prone ecosystem, heat shock, tropical savannas, wet grasslands, heat shock, Brazilian Cerrado, high temperatures, dormancy, Fluctuations, conservation, grasslands, management, plants

Seeds of some eastern Australian Grevillea species show the characteristics of non-deep physiological dormancy, which is broken by exposure to heat shock and/or smoke. The current study tested whether the restrictive effect of the seed coat on germination was localized to…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Ecology, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, Australia, seed dormancy, seed germination, fire management, smoke management, Embryonic Growth Potential, Mechanical Constraint, Non-Deep Physiological Dormancy, Selective Seed Coat Removal, water potential

Africa has the most extensive C4 grassy biomes of any continent. They are highly flammable accounting for greater than 70% of the world's burnt area. Much of Africa's savannas and grasslands occur in climates warm enough and wet enough to support closed forests. The combination…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, flammability, human-caused fires, Africa, deforestation, fire management, range management, grasslands, old fields, savannas, old-growth grasslands, forest restoration, grassland biodiversity, sub-Saharan Africa, fire regimes, global vegetation, carbon emissions, plant diversity, atmospheric CO2, tropical forest, climate change, savanna fire

Deforestation as a result of burning and land conversion in the tropics and subtropics has been widely studied and active restoration of forests has been widely promoted. Besides other benefits, reforestation can sequester carbon thereby reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Africa, South Africa, conservation, deforestation, species diversity (plants), succession, fire management, range management, grasslands, Grassland Biodiversity and Function, forest restoration, Underground Storage Organs, Grassland Succession

Samples (170) of biomass combustion smoke were obtained in Brazilian tropical rainforest and savannah during August-September 1992. Speciation of the ionic fraction of fine (d > 2 :m) and coarse (15 :m > d > 2:m) mode particles was achieved using ion chromatography, and…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Amazon, biomass, Brazil, chemical elements, combustion, deforestation, ecosystem dynamics, land management, litter, nutrients, overstory, rainforests, savannas, smoke effects, South America, statistical analysis

This paper presents results of the AQL2004 project, which has been developed within the GOFC-GOLD Latin American network of remote sensing and forest fires (RedLatif). The project intended to obtain monthly burned-land maps of the entire region, from Mexico to Patagonia, using…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire scars, NBR - Normalized Burn Ratio, remote sensing, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, biomass burning, South America, burn area index, Latin America, air quality, Argentina, biomass, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, cover, croplands, Cuba, deforestation, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, Mexico, Patagonia, savannas, statistical analysis, Venezuela, wildfires

This past year has been a period of transition for the Rocky Mountain Research Station. In 2006, we identified the need to move from an organization of approximately 30 research work units whose work was formed around national Strategic Program Areas, to a more streamlined team-…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing

[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), WFLC - Wildland Fire Leadership Council, fuels management, CPAW - Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire, community planning, wildfire

Seedling recruitment plays a crucial role in recovering plant communities after disturbance. As a natural disturbance, fire can mediate species composition in fescue prairie. However, little was known about the effects of important fire cues on seedling recruitment in fescue…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire cues, seedling density, species composition, species richness, seedling emergence, ash, seed bank, Canada

The prevailing paradigm in the western U.S. is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from management activities including fire suppression, logging, and grazing, combined with…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: forest restoration, literature review, treatment effectiveness, dry forests, thinning, fire severity, carbon storage

An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire research, science delivery, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program

Ecosystems perturbed from their natural disturbance regimes are more vulnerable to establishment and dominance of exotic plant species. Restoration efforts that reintroduce fire have achieved mixed success in reducing the abundance of exotic plants. The responses of many native…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Missouri, Ailanthus altissima, germination, heat, invasive species, Lonicera maackii, seedling recruitment, plant growth, regeneration, seed germination, seedlings, woody plants, fire management, forest management

Some model experiments predict a large-scale substitution of Amazon forest by savannah-like vegetation by the end of the twenty-first century. Expanding global demands for biofuels and grains, positive feedbacks in the Amazon forest fire regime and drought may drive a faster…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, Brazil, C - carbon, deforestation, droughts, ENSO, fire control, fire regimes, forest fragmentation, forest management, climate change, land use, logging, mortality, South America, temperature, tropical forests, wildfires, deforestation, biofuel, feedbacks, globalization, global warming