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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…
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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: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, firing techniques, Florida, smoke management

Conventional wisdom within American federal fire management agencies suggests that external influence such as community or political pressure for aggressive suppression are key factors circumscribing the ability to execute less aggressive fire management strategies. Thus, a…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire size, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, smoke effects, wildfires, education, insects, mortality, public information, Wyoming, fire management, forest management, land management, fire management, political pressure, community pressure, wildlife costs, fire suppression, wildfire policy

Agricultural burning is an important land use practice in the central U.S. But has received little attention in the literature, whereas most of the focus has been on wildfires in forested areas. Given the effects that agricultural burning can have on biodiversity and emissions…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: cropland fires, fire danger rating, season of fire, agriculture, air quality, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, fire management, land management, agricultural burning, active fires, biodiversity, patterns of fire detections, cloud cover, local spatial analysis, fire detections

Nighttime smoke dispersal from most prescribed fires is critical for public health and safety. For this reason, prescribed fire training and guidelines include detailed information about smoke management and remind burn managers to be constantly aware of weather, fuel, and other…
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Year: 2011
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: situational awareness, smoke management, fog

Boreal forests and peatlands in northern circumpolar areas, including Ontario, store globally significant amounts of carbon but are subject to forest fires and other natural disturbances that cycle carbon between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Climate change…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, fire management, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, climate change, peatlands, boreal forests

Fuel consumption is one of the most critical variables in estimating smoke production for smoke management planning in the eastern United States. Although there are fuel consumption equations contained within the national fuel consumption and emissions production tools Consume 3…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel loading, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke management, model validation, smoke production, fuel consumption, SEMIP - Smoke and Emissions Model Intercomparison Project

You plan and light a 28-acre prescribed fire. Within six hours it escapes, burns 24 thousand acres, evacuates a community, destroys 41 homes and, tragically kills one of your crew. Even though this tragic event occurred 30 years ago, several of its key lessons learned are still…
Person: Keller
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: crown fire, escaped fire, firefighter fatalities, firefighter safety, situational awareness, high reliability organization

Introduction to WFDSS - Air Quality ToolsSmoke management is an important aspect of managing wildland fire. While mitigating smoke impacts from prescribed burns is important, smoke from large wildfire complexes (such as the AZ/NM fires in 2011) can expose millions of people to…
Person: Rorig
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke impacts, smoke management, WFDSS - Wildland Fire Decision Support System, BlueSky Modeling Framework, WFDSS-AQ - Wildland Fire Air Quality Tools Portal

Mediasite video presentation given by Miriam Rorig, (USFS, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab) at the 2011 Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ on March 9, 2011. New models and advances in smoke modeling, such as BlueSky, a modeling framework that links a variety…
Person: Rorig
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, fuel characteristics, fuel consumption modeling, smoke dispersion, smoke modeling, wildland fire decision support tools, fire characteristics, Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, WFDSS-AQ - Wildland Fire Air Quality Tools Portal

Prescribed fire is a valuable tool utilized in the management of wildlife habitat, range, forestry, watershed, fuels, and fire dependent vegetation communities. Although most impacts are beneficial, some adverse impacts must be mitigated. Specificially, air quality, water qulity…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backfires, brush, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, combustion, crown scorch, disturbance, escape cover, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, firing techniques, fuel management, headfires, hydrocarbons, land management, low intensity burns, mortality, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, particulates, plant communities, plant physiology, pollution, post-fire recovery, rate of spread, riparian habitats, runoff, season of fire, sedimentation, site treatments, smoke effects, soil erosion, soil management, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soils, streamflow, streams, threatened and endangered species (plants), topography, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, water repellent soils, watershed management, watersheds, wildlife