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Hazards created by smoke from a prescribed fire are very real. Every year, many people are killed or injured as a result of accidents precipitated by smoke on highways. Recognizing the problem, state and local governments are seeking more laws to control when and where fire can…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, fire management, forest management, fuel types, grasses, Ilex glabra, pine forests, Pinus, Sabal palmetto, Serenoa repens, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wind
In reaching its decision that the clearing of land by fire, and its resulting natural consequence, is an inherently dangerous act, the First District Court of Appeals erred in failing to consider the beneficial effect of controlled burning. Today, controlled burning plays an…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management, Florida, land management, liability, natural resource legislation, north Florida, pine forests, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, arthropods, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grasslands, hydrology, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, Lepidoptera, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, public information, range management, recreation, remote sensing, reptiles, runoff, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), streams, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (animals), fire regimes, fuel moisture, human caused fires, Idaho, lightning caused fires, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, old growth forests, old growth vegetation, openings, Pandion halioetus, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, predation, public information, raptors, seeds, serotiny, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), waterfowl, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: droughts, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire suppression, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, mopping up, precipitation, season of fire, seasonal activities, smoke effects, soil moisture, statistical analysis, wildfires
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, Ceanothus, chaparral, education, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire size, gases, ignition, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, southern California, state forests, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Australia, bibliographies, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, deforestation, distribution, Europe, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, climate change, habitat types, land use, remote sensing, savannas, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire management, firing techniques, grasslands, manuals, Minnesota, Montana, mopping up, North Dakota, smoke management, South Dakota, tallgrass prairies, Wisconsin, Wyoming
In December, 1986, planned and prescribed forest management burns took place at Lodi Canyon, on the north side of the Los Angeles Basin, California. These fires involved a mixture of species of small trees and shrubs, including scrub oak, chamise, and mountain mahogany, known…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, aerosol particles, airborne measurements, CN - condensation nuclei, CCN - cloud condensation nuclei
Airborne measurements of thirteen trace gases from seven forest fires in North America are used to determine their average emission factors. The emission factors are then used to estimate the contributions of biomass burning to the worldwide fluxes of these gases. The estimate…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): California, Northwest, International
Keywords: biomass burning, emission factors, fire emissions, trace gases, airborne measurements, wildfires, air quality, gases, Picea glauca, white spruce, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, jack pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, Ontario, Canada, Oregon, fire management, forest management, smoke management, chaparral, coniferous forests
The objective of this prescribed burning guide is to help resource managers plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests by: explaining the reasons for prescribed burning, emphasizing the environmental effects, explaining the importance of weather in prescribed burning…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: prescribed fire planning, smoke management, firing techniques, aerial ignition, aesthetics, air quality, arthropods, backing fire, competition, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire weather, flank fires, Florida, forage, fuel moisture, hardwoods, headfires, heat effects, humidity, insects, livestock, manuals, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, precipitation, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, soil nutrients, temperature, wildlife habitat management, wind
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, slash burning, air resource management
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, slash burning, air resource management
This paper describes emission factors for several gaseous and particulate matter emissions from burning chaparral fuels found primarily in the southwestern United States. Measurements of the smoke were taken for flaming and smoldering combustion phases by suspending sample…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, prescribed fire emissions, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, fire management, smoke management
History of Fire in the Southern Appalachians Ecological and meteorological evidence suggests that lightning-caused fires were a major environmental force shaping the vegetation of the Southeastern United States for millions of years before Indians arrived in America. Lightning…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Appalachian Mountains, European settlement, fire management, mountains, Native Americans, pine forests, presettlement vegetation, regeneration, soils, threatened and endangered species, water, wildlife, wildlife management, fire hazard reduction
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer saccharum, agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, coastal plain, community ecology, computer programs, conservation, croplands, deforestation, distribution, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, energy, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire intensity, fire regimes, forestation, fossils, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, climate change, habitat conversion, heat, histories, land management, multiple resource management, natural areas management, paleoclimatology, phenology, physiology, plant communities, population ecology, public information, radiation, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), storms, temperature, threatened and endangered species (animals), wetlands, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
The expanding use of prescribed fire to achieve North American land management objectives has led, in recent years, to the increased use of helicopter-ignition, large-scale controlled burns. These mass-ignition convection burns often generate extremely intense and erratic fire…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, biomass, Canada, chemistry, convection, distribution, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire whirls, land management, Ontario, sampling, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management
Low-level helicopter flights were used to collect samples of smoke from burning chaparral in southern California and over a boreal forest fire in norther Ontario, Canada. The smoke plume samples were analyzed for carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), methane…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, International
Keywords: boreal forest, southern California, Canada, chaparral, combustion, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, flaming combustion, N2O - nitrous oxide, smoldering combustion, trace gas emissions, CH4 - methane, northern Ontario, H2 - hydrogen
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, bibliographies, chemistry, community ecology, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fishes, floods, fuel moisture, grasslands, habitat types, hydrology, lakes, landscape ecology, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, organic matter, overstory, post fire recovery, recreation, regeneration, riparian habitats, runoff, scrub, sedimentation, smoke effects, statistical analysis, streamflow, streams, succession, topography, water quality, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife, woody plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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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: Cistus spp., cones, Cupressus sempervirens, dominance (ecology), droughts, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, flowering, forestation, grazing, Greece, hardwoods, legumes, light, litter, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, moisture, mortality, needles, N - nitrogen, pine forests, Pinus brutia, Pinus halepensis, Pinus nigra, pioneer species, plant growth, plant physiology, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, Quercion ilicis, rangelands, regeneration, reproduction, resprouting, sampling, Sarcopoterium spinosum, sclerophyll forests, seasonal activities, seed dispersal, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, serotiny, shrubs, soil moisture, statistical analysis, succession, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, charcoal, chemistry, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire frequency, fire regimes, fossils, paleoecology, paleontology, plant growth, prehistoric fires, sedimentation, smoke effects, wetlands, wildfires
Emissions from prescribed fires in several different fuel types in the Pacific Northwest are characterized. Data on the particles are reported as functions of fire behavior and fuel types. Profiles of trace elements, carbon elements, and carbon for each fuel type and combustion…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, combustion, fire intensity, fuel types, particulates, season of fire, smoke management
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, human caused fires, ozone, rainforests, remote sensing, savannas, South America, tropical forests
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arctic, Canada, C - carbon, chemistry, distribution, fuel types, gases, Greenland, Northwest Territories, organic matter, particulates, pollution, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires
Following a repetitive pattern, biomass burning affects the intertropical belt on a continental scale during the dry season1. The importance of these anthropogenic activities with regard to carbonaceous-component emissions into the global atmosphere is now well recognized2-4. It…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, chemistry, fire intensity, fire size, fuel types, habitat types, human caused fires, Ivory Coast, organic matter, particulates, pollution, post fire recovery, savannas, season of fire, seasonal activities, statistical analysis, tropical forests