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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Person:
Year: 2011
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: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, fire management, grasslands, human caused fires, land management, recreation, savannas, shrublands, watershed management, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, smoke management, weather observations
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fire retardants, laboratory fires, particulates, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wood
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, Interior Alaska, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: litter, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphate, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, precipitation, runoff, soil leaching, soil nutrients, South Carolina, volatilization
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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal vegetation, fire management, grasslands, natural areas management, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, rangeland fires, rangelands, shrubs, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Tympanuchus, weed control, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, particulates, smoke management, weather observations
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Person:
Year: 1979
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, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, energy, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, S - sulfur, volatilization, wood
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, dead fuels, fuel moisture, headfires, live fuels, particulates, pine forests, smoke management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, dead fuels, fuel moisture, headfires, live fuels, particulates, pine forests, pollution, smoke management, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, Ilex glabra, laboratory fires, Liquidambar styraciflua, particulates, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus taeda, Quercus laevis, Serenoa repens, understory vegetation
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, decay, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fuel appraisal, fuel types, gases, light, litter, ozone, rural communities, sampling, site treatments, smoke effects, trees
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, general interest, public information, soils, water quality, wildfires, wildlife
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., agriculture, air quality, annual plants, Artemisia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, boreal forests, burning intervals, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fuel types, gases, grasses, heat effects, human caused fires, Juniperus, litter, national forests, nutrient cycling, organic matter, ozone, perennial plants, Picea spp., Pinus edulis, post fire recovery, precipitation, sampling, savannas, season of fire, shrubs, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires, woody plants
Three questions regarding fire research needs were asked of 355 respondents at 68 western USDA Forest Service locations. Responses have been analyzed, summarized, and categorized. Results provide guidance for defining and setting priorities in wildfire research in the western…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: fire danger rating, forest management, fuel management, land management, land use, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This review summarizes the available literature relevant to British Columbia concerning the influences of harvesting and post-harvest practices upon the forest environment and resources, and points out significant gaps in knowledge where research would be useful. This will aid…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., aesthetics, air quality, bibliographies, British Columbia, Canada, coniferous forests, decay, disturbance, fishes, forest management, hardwood forests, hydrology, logging, microclimate, Picea, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant growth, recreation, regeneration, roads, runoff, seed germination, seedlings, slash, soil erosion, soil organisms, soils, succession, watershed management, wildlife
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Andropogon cabanisii, Aristida stricta, Avicennia germinans, Big Cypress National Preserve, birds, Cladium jamaicense, coastal forests, competition, fire danger rating, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firing techniques, Florida, fuel types, game birds, grasses, hardwood hammocks, hardwoods, human caused fires, incendiary fires, lightning caused fires, mammals, marshes, particulates, peat fires, pine forests, Pinus elliottii densa, post fire recovery, Sabal palmetto, salt marshes, Serenoa repens, small mammals, south Florida, succession, swamps, Taxodium distichum, wetlands, wildlife habitat management
A simple and rapid bioassay was implemented to detect the germination activity of extracts from soils in pre/post-burn conditions. Soil samples taken from burnt, unburnt and adjacent plots at depths of 0-2,2-4,4-6 and 6-8 cm before and after burning mesic grassland in South…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fuel loading, fuel moisture, heat effects, smoke effects, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, soils, South Africa, Africa, fire management, range management, soil management, grasslands, germination, lettuce seeds, seed bank, smoke residue, smoke-water, soil extracts
'A program of burning experiments was carried out to assess the air pollutant emmissions potential of forest residues in the Pacific Norhtwest. Only the fine fuel component of slash fuelbeds was considered. Ponderosa pine slash, Douglas-fir slash with needles, and Douglas-fir…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, air temperature, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, combustion, coniferous forests, field experimental fires, fine fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire retardants, flammability, fuel appraisal, fuel arrangement, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, humidity, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, live fuels, logging, needles, old growth forests, particulates, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, second growth forests, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires, wind
The levels of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) were determined in downtown Caracas in order to have a first approach to the problem related to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in this city. Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela is located 10.30°N and 66.7°E in a valley at an altitude of…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, fire management, hydrocarbons, mountains, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, temperature, tropical regions, Venezuela, wildfires
Wildfires affect Rocky Mountain ecosystems across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Many of the resulting changes are greatest for environmental factors, such as substrate and microclimate that control exchanges of greenhouse gases. We investigated this link to…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fuel moisture, post-fire recovery, wildfires, carbon dioxide, gases, global warming, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, pH, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil temperature, statistical analysis, Douglas-fir, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Colorado Front Range, Colorado, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, soil management, coniferous forests, trace gases, soils
Fire affects grassland composition by selectively influencing recruitment. Some exotic species can increase their abundance as a consequence of fire-stimulated seed germination, but response may depend on seed age. Rumex acetosella L. (Polygonaceae, sheep's sorrel) is a…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, post fire recovery, smoke effects, age classes, ash, charcoal, invasive species, plant growth, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, Rumex acetosella, Patagonia, Argentina, South America, fire management, range management, grasslands, plant invasion, post-fire recruitment, Rumex acetosella, seed age, sheep's sorrel, soil seed bank
Cyanide is well known for its toxicity towards living organisms. Many plants use cyanide as a defensive agent against herbivores, releasing it through the enzymatic hydrolysis of endogenous cyanogenic compounds. At low concentrations, cyanide has been proposed to have a…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, chemistry, regeneration, seed germination, toxicity, Anigozanthos, Australia, forest management, smoke management
In the present work, post-burning soil N2O fluxes and related microbial processes were investigated in a Mediterranean shrubland subjected to experimental fires. Nine plots were selected, of which three were used as controls, three were burned with low-intensity fire and three…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fire, fire frequency, fire intensity, low intensity burns, surface fires, air quality, C - carbon, enzymes, N - nitrogen, sampling, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, statistical analysis, Italy, Mediterranean, fire management, soil management, Mediterranean habitats, shrublands, denitrification, fire intensity, nitrification, soil nitrogen