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Savannas are a major terrestrial biome, comprising of grasses with the C4 photosynthetic pathway and trees with the C3 type. This mixed grass-tree biome rapidly appeared on the ecological stage 8 million years ago with the near-synchronous expansion of C4 grasses around the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cover, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, flammability, grasses, grasslands, land use, mortality, photosynthesis, plant growth, regeneration, savannas, trees, wildfires, C4 photosynthesis, cloud physics, feedbacks, systems analysis
Fire has been shown to stimulate seed germination in a number of fire-prone ecosystems, mainly in Mediterranean type shrublands and, though not exclusively, in hardseeded species. Stimulation by heat, or by chemical constituents of charred wood and smoke, have been identified as…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: adaptation, Andropogon lateralis, Asteraceae, Brazil, Cyperaceae, ecosystem dynamics, Elionurus, Eryngium, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forbs, germination, grasses, grasslands, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Mediterranean habitats, Poaceae, range management, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, South America, temperature, wood, germination, grasslands, heat shock, southern Brazil
Soil seed banks that persist after a fire are important in fire-prone habitats as they minimise the risk of decline or local extinction in plants, should the fire-free interval be less than the primary juvenile periods of the species. In two common woody plant genera (Acacia and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Acacia suaveolens, Australia, distribution, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, germination, Grevillea, heat, low intensity burns, mortality, national parks, New South Wales, population density, range management, season of fire, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, shrublands, smoke management, wildfires, Acacia spp., depth of burial, fire frequency, Grevillea, soil seed bank, southeastern Australia, seedling emergence
Several studies have documented potential health effects due to agricultural burning smoke. However, there is a paucity of literature characterizing community residents' exposure to agricultural burning smoke. This study assesses personal exposures to particulate matter (PM)…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, biomass burning, cropland fires, fire management, forest management, health factors, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, biomass burning, smoke impact, personal exposure, random component superposition model, recursive model, spatial variation
From the text ... 'The use of prescribed fire as a land management tool has deep and ancient roots in south Carolina's heritage, but conducting prescribed burns is becoming increasingly challenging because of a variety of factors, according to the chairman of the South Carolina…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, birds, carnivorous plants, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, coniferous forests, Dionaea, education, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, game birds, Gopherus polyphemus, grasslands, hardwood forests, hunting, land management, longleaf pine, Picoides borealis, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, public information, range management, roots, Sarracenia, season of fire, Smokey Bear program, South Carolina, Turkey, wild turkey, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the Executive Summary ... 'Over 2,000 wildfires burned 500,000 acres of Florida real estate, most of it between May and mid July, 1998. Although virtually every county was impacted, the fires were concentrated in the northeast quadrant defined by boundaries extending north…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Aphelocoma coerulescens, catastrophic fires, Deeringothamnus rugelii, droughts, education, fire damage (property), Florida, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, GIS, habitat suitability, health factors, herbicides, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Leptographium, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national forests, overstory, partial cutting, pine forests, plant diseases, plantations, public information, storms, suppression, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wildfires, wildlife refuges, BEHAVE, PREDICTORS OF EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR, HOME PROTECTION STRATEGIES, anthropogenic factors
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, Alnus glutinosa, Asphodelus, Australia, chaparral, Chile, Cistus incanus, Clematis, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Erica arborea, Erica australis, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, Fraxinus, fynbos, germination, Juniperus oxycedrus, Lavandula, Mediterranean habitats, plant communities, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, resprouting, Rhamnus, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, South Africa, South America, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires, Mediterranean basin, chapparal, fynbos, kwongan, matorral, Erica, Juniperus
Federal fuels managers are increasingly using prescribed fire to decrease hazardous fuels and risks to resources in wildland and urban settings. Two factors have become apparent throughout the last several years: prescribed burning costs are rising, and costs exhibit substantial…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: broadcast burning, computer programs, coniferous forests, elevation, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grasslands, Great Plains, land management, Oregon, season of fire, sloping terrain, statistical analysis, thinning, topography, Washington, wildfires, cost structure
The past decade has seen an increasing interest in forest management based on historical or natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale is that management that favours landscape compositions and stand structures similar to those found historically should also maintain…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, Canada, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, logging, old growth forests, Quebec, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, wildfires
From the text (p.2) ... 'Prescribed burning is an essential management tool in southern pine forests, particularly where bobwhite are the focal species....'(p.3) '...Hoever, over the last half of this century, the use of prescribed fire has declined throughout the region as…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aimophila aestivalis, Alabama, burning permits, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, Florida, forbs, forest management, game birds, Georgia, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, grasslands, ignition, invasive species, liability, litigation, Louisiana, Mississippi, needles, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, population density, private lands, reptiles, roads, season of fire, Sitta pusilla, smoke management, South Carolina, Tall Timbers Research Station, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Virginia, wildlife habitat management, wood
From the text ... 'We saw how fire suppression efforts often did more damage than the fire itself -- as we also questioned the high costs of aggressive fire suppression.... Wven some members of the wildland fire management community found it difficult to imagine allowing…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: archaeological sites, Arizona, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, national forests, recreation, site treatments, suppression, US Forest Service, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'This issue of Fire Management Today highlights the expanding science of smoke issues and air quality. From the discussion of Web-based tools that predict how much smoke might come from that fire and where it might go, to the growing array of monitoring…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, wildfires
From the text (p.19) ... 'As people move closer to forests, the smoke from controlled burns becomes more problematic. Smoke can cause health problems ranging from irritated eyes and throats to more serious disorders such as asthma, bronchitis, reduced lung function, and even…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, fire management, forest management, fragmentation, health factors, humidity, Piedmont, roads, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management
From the text (9) ... ''The entire South is becoming one big wildland-urban interface. Increasingly, people are building homes and recreating in the interface with no regard for the risks,' says John Stanturf, project leader at the SRS Center for Forest Disturbance Science based…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, pine forests, plant communities, regeneration, savannas, wildfires
The South is the birthplace of statutes and ordinances that both advocate and protect the cultural heritage of woods burning, which has been practiced in this region uninterrupted for more than 10,000 years. We present a brief overview of fire use in the South and discuss why…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: community ecology, coniferous forests, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Georgia, hardwood forests, land management, liability, natural resource legislation, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires, wood
Except in remote areas, most prescribed fires will have some effect on members of the public. It is therefore important for land managers to work with the public before, during, and after a prescribed burn. To do this effectively, managers need to have an accurate idea of what…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: education, fire control, fire management, National Fire Plan, Native Americans, public information, smoke management, urban habitats
The general perceptions of prescribed burning were elicited from forest users for an area that has been subject to this form of land management for at least 20 years. The largest group consisted of local residents living in and around the Wombat State Forest with two smaller…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, community ecology, conservation, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, land management, public information, season of fire, state forests, statistical analysis, Victoria, wildfires, Wombat State Forest, fuel reduction burning, planned fire, wildfire, land management, community
The impact of major gaseous and particulate pollutants emitted by the wildfire of October 2003 on ambient air quality and health of San Diego residents before, during, and after the fire are analyzed using data available from the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, wildfires, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, health factors, ozone, particulates, pollution, southern California, fire management, forest management
Previous research has found that exposure to fire-related cues enhances germination of some plant species, and such species may exist in frequent-fire southwestern United States Pinus ponderosa forests. I performed four greenhouse experiments with Penstemon barbatus, a perennial…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: germination, seeds, Penstemon barbatus, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Arizona, char, coniferous forests, fire frequency, fire management, forbs, forest management, Grevillea spp., heat effects, perennial plant, Pinus ponderosa, plant ecology, presettlement fires, Schizachyrium scoparium, season of fire, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis
From the introduction: Let me emphasize that I only claim to speak with authority about the task of restoring fire to the National Forests. Private landowners have their own special problems in using prescribed fire, size of forest tracts, lack of expertise, etc. Before we can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: eastern forests, fire management, historic fire use, public education, oak forests, prescribed fire program, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire size, forest management, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, public information, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
In a time when fire planners and forest supervisors in many parts of the United States are implementing plans to increase the number and frequency of prescribed burns, the issue of smoke impacts on air quality is becoming increasingly important. Smoke from prescribed fires can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, eastern deciduous forest, prescribed fire planning, smoke impacts, smoke management, oak forests
Participants in a series of focus groups discussed how their tolerance for smoke varied by the source of the smoke and found their opinions changing as they talked with other participants. Even those opposed to smoke from agricultural burning eventually found smoke from…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: defensible space, education, social acceptance, wildfire management, focus groups, fuels treatments
Cuban Parrots (Amazona leucocephala) on the island of Great Abaco in the Bahamas forage and nest in native pine forests. The population is unique in that the birds nest in limestone solution holes on the forest floor. Bahamian pine forests are fire-dependent with a frequent…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: birds, cavity nesting birds, Bahamas, backing fire, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, forage, fuel loading, ignition, lightning caused fires, low intensity burns, national parks, nesting, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine forests, Pinus caribaea, surface fires, temperature, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management
Smoke data were collected from two instrumented plots located on the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina during prescribed burns on Feb. 12, 2003. One of the plots had been subjected to mechanical chipping. Particulate matter (PM2.5) data analyzed by gravimetric…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, Clethra alnifolia, coastal plain, drainage, fire management, forest management, fuel management, Ilex glabra, invasive species, Liquidambar styraciflua, national forests, particulates, pine hardwood forests, Pinus taeda, precipitation, Quercus nigra, Quercus phellos, savannas, Schizachyrium scoparium, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, soil permeability, soils, South Carolina, statistical analysis, storms, wind, smoke modeling, particulate matter, PM - particulate matter
Throughout August and September, 2003, wildfires burned in close proximity to Missoula, Montana, with smoke emanating from the fires impacting the valley for much of the summer. This presented the perfect opportunity to measure the levels of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, droughts, fire management, foam, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, Montana, particulates, season of fire, smoke management, wildfires, elemental carbon, forest fire, dioxins, organic carbon, PM2.5