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We have analyzed the soluble portion of impurities trapped in solid precipitation that accumulated at Summit (central Greenland) from 1193 A.D. to the present. Seventy-three ice layers show elevated concentrations of ammonium and formate, caused by high-latitude biomass burning…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Greenland, ice cores, biomass burning, ion concentrations, boreal vegetation, paleoclimate
This publication provides guidelines for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to:
Minimize ambient air quality impairment.
Prevent smoke from being carried to, or accumulating in, areas sensitive to smoke.
Recommend burning guidelines to supplement the regulations …
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords:
We assessed the exposure of rural residents in the small community of Theobroma, Brazil, to the smoke generated from widespread agricultural and forest burning during August and September, 1995. Samples were collected for an 8-day period by using five battery powered personal…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, agricultural burning, forest burning, CO - carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, personal aerosol sampling pumps, benzene, respirable particles, biomass burning, Amazon, air quality
From the text...'Two studies recently looked at differences in impacts on National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and visibility from wildland fires (prescribed fire and wildfire). The First Study: was part of the analysis for the Columbia River Basin (CRB) Environmental…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, fire management, fuel appraisal, fuel management, land management, Oregon, particulates, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, shrublands, smoke management, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires, wildlife
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma, air quality, amphibians, biogeography, Ceanothus, chaparral, coastal vegetation, community ecology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasslands, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, nongame birds, post fire recovery, reptiles, sclerophyll vegetation, small mammals, southern California, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), succession, wading birds, wildfires
A large forest fire occurred about 300 km to the northeast of the Edmonton area in early summer 1995. The forest fire produced nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and ozone which were transported down-wind. Continuous monitoring of O3, NO and NO2 and integrated measurements of…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, Canada, fire management, hydrocarbons, nitrogen, ozone, pollution, smoke management, urban habitats, wildfires, forest fire, ozone, photochemical smog, urban and rural pollution, air quality
From the text ... 'Forest rangers and residents are trying to promote the benefits of using more prescribed burns to control wildfires throughout the state.... Every landowner wants to do more controlled burns, but they have tied our hands with regulations.'
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coniferous forests, droughts, fire control, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire suppression (aerial), forest management, lightning caused fires, north Florida, prescribed fires (escaped), St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, wildfires
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…
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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
Combustion products of burning vegetation can increase seed germination of many species of fire-prone plant communities. We tested the influence of heating sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata Nutt.) subcanopy soil, aqueous extracts of artificially burned soil, and sagebrush smoke on…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Achnatherum, Artemisia tridentata, Bromus tectorum, combustion, Festuca idahoensis, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, germination, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, heat effects, Idaho, leaves, Nevada, plant communities, plant growth, Purshia tridentata, range management, rangelands, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, Sierra Nevada, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature
From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, fuel moisture, logging, mortality, post fire recovery, smoke management, wildfires
From the text...'In the past month and a half 2,214 wildfires (ninety percent of which were started by lightning) have consumed 497,209 acres in Florida. More than forty-five thousand people were evacuated from areas that lay in the path of these fires. Five hundred million…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, general interest, lightning, lightning caused fires, precipitation, public information, wildfires
From the text...'In the Lake Tahoe Basin, organizations and individuals are leveraging the community's high interest in lake clarity and fire danger to construct complex, dynamic models for adaptive management. Models show citizens how the ecosystem works so that they can make…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, algae, calcium, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, firebrands, forest management, fuel management, lakes, land use, Nevada, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus, plant growth, runoff, sedimentation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, state parks, US Forest Service, urban habitats, water quality, watershed management
Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the immediate or direct results of a…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, cover, cover type, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel models, land management, mineral soils, mortality, Oregon, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, woody fuels
From the text...'Conclusions:..Our observations indicate that smoke alone will not necessarily drive spotted owls off their territories. Even fire in close proximity and very high levels of disturbance associated with fire-fighting failed to force the bullgrouse female to…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: Abies grandis, cavity nesting birds, coniferous forests, crown scorch, disturbance, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, forest management, lakes, land management, logging, mortality, Native Americans, old growth forests, Oregon, photography, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, salvage, smoke effects, Strix occidentalis, Washington, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the text...'The restoration of ecological processes is the key to promoting ecosystem stability and preserving biological integrity (Samson and Knopf 1993). Using prescribed fire to intentionally burn wildland biomass has been successful in restoring wildland fire regimes…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, dendrochronology, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, grazing, land management, land use, landscape ecology, nutrient cycling, Oregon, pollen, sedimentation, succession, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife
From the text...'Conditions contributing to Florida's firestorms are similar to problems plaguing Montana forests. Scenes of devastation underscore the need to better manage forests.'
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Montana, public information, smoke effects, wildfires
Investigations of the ecological, atmospheric chemical, and climatic impacts of contemporary fires in tropical vegetation have received increasing attention during the last 10 years. Little is known, however, about the impacts of climate changes on tropical vegetation and…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Andropogon virginicus, bibliographies, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, Central America, cover type conversion, deforestation, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fragmentation, fuel loading, climate change, grasses, Hakea sericea, human caused fires, Imperata, India, Indonesia, introduced species, invasive species, land management, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, Melaleuca quinquenervia, Mexico, montane forests, Pennisetum, Pinus, plant communities, Poa, post-fire recovery, precipitation, savannas, South America, Southeast Asia, species diversity (plants), storms, temperature, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires
Within the Proteaceae, 353 species confined to 7 genera in the Grevilleoideae have woody fruits. The majority (> 70%) occur in fire-prone vegetation on nutrient-poor, summer-dry soils of south-western Australia. These species are characterised by large, winged seeds contained…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: arid regions, arthropods, Australia, Banksia, biomass, birds, community ecology, Dryandra, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fruits, germination, Hakea, herbivory, insects, leaves, marsupials, Mediterranean habitats, mortality, phenology, plant growth, plant nutrients, plant physiology, population ecology, post fire recovery, protein, regeneration, resprouting, sclerophyll vegetation, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, seedlings, seeds, serotiny, smoke effects, soils, species diversity (plants), Testa, water, wind
From the text...'If you are not using a Public Information Officer on your prescribed burn projects, you should consider doing so. A PIO will provide a valuable service. As you scramble to get the needed resources, equipment and weather data, they can concentrate on informing…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, pH, public information
1 Smoke-stimulated germination in the post-fire flora of California chaparral does not appear to be triggered by nitrate. Application of freshly prepared unbuffered KNO³ solutions (pH c. 6.2) failed to enhance germination of five populations of Emmenanthe penduliflora or one…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, annual plants, biomass, chaparral, char, chemical compounds, Emmenanthe penduliflora, fire dependent species, gases, germination, laboratory fires, light, nitrogen, oxygen, pH, Phacelia grandiflora, plant physiology, range management, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, S - sulfur, water
Smoke from forest fires in southern Mexico was advected into the U.S. southern plains from April to June 1998. Cloud-to-ground lightning (CG) flash data from the National Lightning Detection Network matched against satellite-mapped aerosol plumes imply that thunderstorms forming…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, droughts, fire danger rating, fire management, lightning, lightning effects, Mexico, smoke effects, smoke management, storms, Texas
For the first 35 years of the Florida State Park System, fire was vigorously suppressed on state park lands. During that time, hardwoods encroached into pinelands and grasslands, and fuel loads reached dangerously high levels. During 1970, Tall Timbers Research Station Director…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida, cover type conversion, education, evolution, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, grasslands, habitat conversion, hardwoods, human caused fires, hydrology, invasive species, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, landscape ecology, liability, lightning, natural resource legislation, north Florida, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, plant communities, public information, range management, Sapium sebiferum, season of fire, smoke management, south Florida, state forests, state parks, Sus scrofa, Tall Timbers Research Station, wetlands, wildfires
This paper describes fire characteristics and the immediate effects of a prescribed, high-intensity burn on a 12.2 hectare portion of a stand of Ocala sand pine scrub. The fire team on the Seminole District, Ocala National Forest used the BEHAVE fire model to predict the…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon, backfires, catastrophic fires, Cladonia, crown fires, crowns, evergreens, fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, Florida, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Galactia, headfires, humidity, lichens, light, litter, Lyonia ferruginea, mineral soils, moisture, national forests, needles, Ocala National Forest, overstory, Pinus clausa, Quercus chapmanii, Quercus geminata, Quercus laevis, Quercus myrtifolia, Rhynchospora megalocarpa, Sabal etonia, scrub, Serenoa repens, smoke management, snags, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, wind
The noble and heroic 'paradigm' in wildland fire protection is the firefighter who protects forest and other wildlands from attack by fire. The driptorch-lugging prescribed burner carries few of the heroic trappings of suppression personnel. In this paper, we describe the…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, Chapman, H.H., coniferous forests, droughts, education, evolution, fire case histories, fire protection, fire suppression, Florida, histories, national forests, Oregon, public information, smoke effects, Stoddard, H.L., trapping, wilderness fire management, wildlife refuges
Florida's natural communities evolved under the influence of frequent, low-intensity lightning fires. Many communities require such fires for continued existence. Fire managers must contend with the increasing pressure of a burgeoning population. The state's population increases…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: central Florida, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, land management, lightning, low intensity burns, north Florida, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, south Florida, wildfires