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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Beadel, H.L., boreal forests, browse, catastrophic fires, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conifers, crown fires, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flammability, Florida, forbs, fuel accumulation, fuel types, game birds, grazing, ground cover, habitat types, hardwoods, herbivory, humidity, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, Meleagris gallopavo, mosaic, multiple resource management, nitrogen fixation, North Carolina, nutrient cycling, Odocoileus virginianus, organic matter, particulates, pesticides, pine forests, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, plant communities, plant nutrients, pocosins, pollution, post fire recovery, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), presettlement fires, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, savannas, scrub, shrublands, shrubs, site treatments, soil erosion, South Carolina, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Stoddard, H.L., swamps, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (plants), wetlands, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife management, wildlife openings, xeric soils, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire management, forest management, national forests, national parks, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park

From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, conservation, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, Idaho, land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, mammals, Montana, mortality, mosaic, mountains, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, old growth forests, plant communities, post fire recovery, predation, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, soil erosion, species diversity (animals), state forests, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wildlife refuges, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, arthropods, ash, birds, Botswana, charcoal, chemistry, community ecology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, flammability, fuel moisture, ground cover, habitat conversion, habitat types, hydrology, insects, mammals, mortality, mosaic, peat, peat fires, peatlands, perennial plants, plant communities, plant growth, plant nutrients, post fire recovery, precipitation, reproduction, rivers, seasonal activities, soil nutrients, soil permeability, soils, streamflow, surface fires, swamps, topography, water, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerial ignition, arthropods, backfires, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, Montana, national forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, post fire recovery, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, reproduction, rural communities, senescence, serotiny, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, catastrophic fires, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebrands, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, land management, Leopold, Aldo, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, pine forests, Pinus contorta, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, archaeological sites, birds, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, eucalyptus, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, grasslands, Gymnogyps californianus, hardwood forests, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national parks, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus attenuata, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus radiata, Pinus torreyana, Quercus, scrub, season of fire, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum , soils, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, computer programs, fire suppression, Florida, humidity, precipitation, smoke management, weather observations, wind

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, arthropods, ash, backfires, burning intervals, catastrophic fires, Cervus canadensis, community ecology, computer programs, cones, crown fires, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroica kirtlandii, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fertilizers, fire control, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, firebreaks, fishes, flammability, flowering, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, grasslands, grazing, ground fires, human caused fires, Idaho, insects, light burning, lightning caused fires, livestock, low intensity burns, Michigan, moisture, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, Odocoileus hemionus, pine forests, pine, Pinus contorta, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, predators, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, roots, season of fire, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sialia currucoides, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), trees, water, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife openings, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, land management, particulates, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, humidity, North Carolina, peat fires, pocosins, smoke management, weather observations, wetlands, wind

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Alces alces, Bison bison, catastrophic fires, Cervus canadensis, cover, Felis concolor, forage, general interest, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, mammals, mortality, national parks, nongame birds, Odocoileus, Ovis canadensis, Pandion halioetus, Picoides arcticus, predation, raptors, small mammals, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Ursus americanus, Ursus arctos, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: droughts, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, ignition, liability, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, smoke effects, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, education, environmental impact statements, fire management, forest management, logging, multiple resource management, national forests, Oregon, pollution, public information, slash, smoke management, Washington

We present evidence that fire suppression may have contributed to the fungal decline of torreya (Torreya taxifolia). During the 1950's torreya suffered a catastrophic die-back. The torreya die-back was probably caused by needle pathogens induced through environmental stress.…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conifers, fire frequency, fire suppression, fungi, light, microorganisms, needles, plant diseases, plant growth, seed germination, smoke effects, succession, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (plants), topography, Torreya taxifolia, toxicity, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, birds, bottomland hardwoods, coastal plain, environmental impact statements, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, hardwoods, mammals, particulates, Piedmont, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, season of fire, sedimentation, site treatments, small mammals, soil erosion, soil nutrients, soils, tallgrass prairies, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, fire management, fire suppression, fuel types, gases, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wood, wood chemistry

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Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, biomass, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, duff, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, land use, natural areas management, nutrients, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management

In the United States, prescribed burning of wildlands is practiced on over 2 million hectares of land each year. Based on our survey conducted in 1989, approximately 70, 20, and 10% of this burning occurs in the Southeast, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain regions,…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, chemical elements, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, litter, live fuels, particulates, Pinus elliottii, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke managementtoxicity, wildlife habitat management

From the text... 'A brief report by four scientists of The Nature Conservancy in Florida [about a method for propagating wiregrass included the following steps] ... Collect seeds from central Florida sites five to eight months after summer burn. Place seeds on moist filter paper…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Apalachicola Bluffs, Aristida stricta, central Florida, conifers, European settlement, evergreens, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), Florida, flowering, Gopherus polyphemus, land management, lightning caused fires, north Florida, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, population ecology, regeneration, reproduction, sandhills, season of fire, seed production, seeds, smoke effects, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), threatened and endangered species (plants), Torreya, Torreya taxifolia

The character of most forest ecosystems in the southern U.S. has been shaped by fire. Indians and early settlers burned the woods for many purposes. After a period of trying to exclude fire, foresters recognized its value as an ecological force and its necessity as a management…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, carbon dioxide, Colinus virginianus, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, European settlement, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, firebreaks, firing techniques, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, grazing, hardwoods, histories, lightning caused fires, logging, low intensity burns, moisture, Native Americans, Odocoileus virginianus, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, Pinus serotina, pollution, regeneration, season of fire, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, stand characteristics, temperature, topography, understory vegetation, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, wood

From the text: 'The most pressing problem facing prescribed burners today is smoke which reduces visibility on nearby highways. Included is a summary of smoke-related accidente, attributed to prescribed fires, in the South. And...there are undoubtedly more of which I am not…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, fire injuries (humans), Florida, Georgia, liability, North Carolina, plantations, smoke management, South Carolina, US Forest Service

We studied cross-seasonal changes in pulmonary function and respiratory symptoms in 52 wildland firefighters in Northern California. The mean cross-seasonal change in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEVI) was-1.2% (95% confidence interval [CI] -O.5, -2.0%) with a…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, backfires, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, dust, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel types, gases, national forests, northern California, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

A prescribed fire was ignited near Chapleau, western Ontario, Canada, on the afternoon of August 10, 1989. The fire, covering approximately 400 ha, burned vigorously over a period of 3 hours, from 1400 to 1700 EDT, generating a plume cloud structure including a portion…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, distribution, field experimental fires, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fuel loading, lightning, lightning effects, logging, Ontario, physics, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management

After the serious smoke inversion conditions on the northern California and southern Oregon fires of 1987 and the Greater Yellowstone Area fires of 1988, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) hosted a conference - 'The Effect of Forest Fire Smoke on Firefighters'-in…
Person:
Year: 1991
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, National
Keywords: air quality, northern California, Oregon, smoke behavior, smoke effects, Yellowstone National Park