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CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, carbon dioxide, clearcutting, fire management, climate change, Indonesia, land use, logging, peat, peatlands, remote sensing, soil management, soil temperature, soils, Sumatra, temperature, tropical regions, wildfires, greenhouse gas emissions, forest fires, tropical soil respiration
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
In the management of forest fires, early detection and fast response are known to be the two major actions that limit both fire loss and fire-associated costs. There are several inter-related factors that are crucial in producing an efficient fire detection system: the strategic…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Europe, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, Portugal, season of fire, statistical analysis, wildfires, forest fires, lookout towers, Portugal, visibility, fire detection, fire towers, FIRE DETECTION FUNCTION MODEL
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, biomass, forest management, GIS, health factors, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, southern California, statistical analysis, wildfires, particulate matter, satellite image, visibility, spatial interpolation
From the text (p.332) ... 'Within the landscape, detailed mapping of sensitive species and remnant fragments is being used to define appropriate silvicultural and burning techniques. For remnant forest fragments with residual savanna species, silvicultural efforts include (1)…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida beyrichiana, burning intervals, coastal plain, community ecology, forbs, fuel moisture, GIS, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, habitat types, hardwoods, herbicides, land use, landscape ecology, longleaf pine, native species (plants), old fields, overstory, Pinus palustris, plant communities, population ecology, savannas, shrubs, smoke management, South Carolina, thinning, REINTRODUCTIONS OF NATIVE SPECIES
From the text ... 'Longleaf pine trees and wiregrass, which thrive with burning, have been planted in the 150-foot wide medians since 2003. Prescribed fires, forest experts say, help maintain scenic vistas and healthy pine forests. The prescribed burn is the first on a highway…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Aristida beyrichiana, artificial regeneration, education, fire management, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasses, grasslands, herbicides, hunting, landscape ecology, longleaf pine, mowing, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plantations, pollution, public information, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, trees, wildfires, wildlife, FL DOT - Florida Department of Transportation, HIGHWAY MEDIANS
From the text ... 'Once fires are established on the western portion of the Klamath National Forest, the pattern becomes a long-term commitment of resources, overhead teams, and expenditures.... When it comes to what to do with the Wooley Fire, there is no shortage of issues and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, health factors, ignition, national forests, northern California, public information, rate of spread, smoke effects, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'A coordinated, interagency effort is required to ensure that fire use programs are implemented in a professional and competent manner.... Fire management is as much a philosophy and attitude toward the land as it is an action program.'
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, land management, public information, smoke management, wildfires
From the text ... 'One of the challenges for all smoke dispersion and impact models is to characterize the accuracy of their prediction of smoke trajectories, concentration of pollutants, and duration of impacts.... Understanding the needs and requirements of the model users is…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, wildfires
From the text ... 'To mitigate and reduce downstream smoke complaints, clients in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere have used BlueSky and BlueSky-RAINS on prescribed burns for go/no-go decisions and timing.... Failure to meet air quality obligations can lead to more stringent…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, Fire Consortia for the Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS), fire management, forest management, fuel management, GIS, smoke behavior, smoke management, wind
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
Visibility impairment from regional haze is a significant problem throughout the continental United States. A substantial portion of regional haze is produced by smoke from prescribed and wildland fires. Here we describe the integration of four simulation models, an array of GIS…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, distribution, ENSO, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, flammability, GIS, Idaho, ignition, Michigan, national parks, Oregon, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, wilderness areas, wildfires, Wyoming, regional haze, integrated models, fire regimes, smoke dispersion
Biomass burning from forest regions and agriculture crop residues can emit substantial amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. An inventory of forest, grassland and agricultural burning is important for studies related to global change. This study…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass, broadcast burning, croplands, fire management, gases, climate change, grasslands, India, particulates, range management, remote sensing, statistical analysis, biomass burning, cereal waste, gases and particle emissions, field burning, global change
Repeated sequences of digitised and geo-referenced historical aerial photography provide a powerful means of understanding landscape change. We use this method to demonstrate a landscape wide expansion of closed forest (42% increase in total coverage) in the Australian monsoon…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, carbon dioxide, competition, distribution, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire protection, flammability, forest edges, forest management, GIS, grasses, habitat suitability, landscape ecology, Northern Territory of Australia, photography, savannas, statistical analysis, trees, aerial photography, historical ecology, Indigenous fire-use, generalised linear modelling, geographic information systems, landscape ecology, vegetation dynamics
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
The Research and Development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation's forests and grasslands. Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
During 2005, the USDA Forest Service celebrated its Centennial, recognizing 100 years of successfully caring for the land and serving people. The Rocky Mountain Research Station has been, and continues to be, an integral part of the Forest Service mission, dating back to the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, 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
Fires contribute substantial emissions of trace gases and particles to the atmosphere. These emissions can impact air quality and even climate. We have developed a modeling framework to estimate the emissions from fires in North and parts of Central America (10-71 degrees N and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, North America, PM - particulate matter, Mexico, agriculture, agricultural fires, CO - carbon monoxide, South America, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, cover, croplands, duff, fire management, fuel loading, gases, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, overstory, particulates, precipitation, remote sensing, shrubs, smoke management, statistical analysis, wetlands, wildfires
On Monday, 19 July, and Tuesday, 20 July 2004, the air over Houston, Texas, appeared abnormally hazy. Transport model results and data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS), the Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, Southern, International
Keywords: ozone, air pollution, Texas, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, wildfire, Canada
Hourly measurements of organic and elemental carbon (OC and EC) in fine particles (PM2.5) were conducted at an urban site of Incheon, Korea, between June 2004 and October 2004, using a Sunset Lab semi-continuous carbon field instrument with a continuous-flow non-dispersive…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, C - carbon, China, Korea, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, high time resolution, carbonaceous species, MODIS satellite image, forest fires, regional haze
Mercury emissions from forest fires in Europe and in North African countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea were estimated on the basis of ground-based forest fires data, forests phytomass and measured emission factors. Satellite observations were used to assess mercury…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, C - carbon, combustion, deforestation, distribution, Europe, fire management, fire size, foliage, France, GIS, Italy, Mediterranean habitats, Hg - mercury, Middle East, phenology, plant communities, Poland, pollution, Portugal, remote sensing, Russia, smoke management, Spain, statistical analysis, wildfires, remote sensing, GIS, Europe, Russian federation, Mediterranean, forest fires, Hg - mercury
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, biomass, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, cover type, crown fires, dead fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fuel models, GIS - geographic information system, moisture, overstory, particulates, pollution, population density, regeneration, smoke management, southern California, vegetation surveys, wildfires, pollution, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, air quality, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, particulates