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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
The Minimum Acceptable Visibility (MAV) table was originally provided by the California Highway Patrol in response to an inquiry relative to acceptable highway visibility reduction caused by smoke. The table was included in chapter two of the 1991 edition of the National Park…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire smoke, roads, road corridor, road, smoke effects, smoke-induced fog, superfog, smoke
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…
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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…
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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
Equations for predicting duff and large woody fuel (7.6+ cm) consumption are summarized. Dependent variables are duff depth reduction, percentage duff depth reduction, percentage mineral soil, large fuel diameter reduction, and percentage large fuel reduction. Opportunities to…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Artemisia tridentata, coniferous forests, conifers, duff, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, mineral soils, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, wildfires, woody fuels
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…
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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
A climatic gradient across Northwestern Ontario induces a spatial gradient in fire incidence, with few fires in the Northeastern part and many in the Southwestern part. The resultant landscape mosaics exhibit maximum landscape (beta) diversity with intermediate disturbance…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Abies balsamea, aesthetics, age classes, boreal forests, Canada, CO2 - carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, climate change, human caused fires, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, mosaic, national parks, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Picea glauca, Pinus banksiana, plant communities, Populus tremuloides, prescribed fires (chance ignition), statistical analysis, temperate forests, trees, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
[From the text] In the southeastern United States, the native biota of many natural ecosystems are adapted to periodic burning. It is generally believed that in Florida at the time of European intervention, these ecosystems were sustained as fire climax communities by relatively…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, climax vegetation, fire management, Florida, land management, land use, land use planning, natural resource legislation, particulates, plant communities, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, state parks
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, age classes, Canada, coniferous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, fuel types, headfires, human caused fires, ignition, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national parks, Picea, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus glabra, Populus tremuloides, prescribed fires (chance ignition)
The response of the global climate system to smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait is investigated in a series of numerical experiments using a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model with an interactive soot transport model and extended radiation scheme. The results…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, ENSO, heat, India, Kuwait, Middle East, particulates, precipitation, radiation, season of fire, soot, statistical analysis, temperature
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: forest management, smoke management
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: crowns, dead fuels, education, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, general interest, Georgia, land management, litter, overstory, public information, smoke management, surface fires, understory vegetation
[From the text] In the southeastern United States, the native biota of many natural ecosystems are adapted to periodic burning. It is generally believed that in Florida at the time of European intervention, these ecosystems were sustained as fire climax communities by relatively…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: forest management, land use plan, smoke management, Florida, smoke rights, easements
In 1985, Yosemite began using a geographic information system for fire management and research. The system has been used to compare historic fire incidence over a range of topography and vegetation types. Parkwide fuel inventories and prescribed burn units have also been…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: BEHAVE, fire management, GIS - geographic information system, Yosemite National Park, research, Abies magnifica, chaparral, climatology, computer program, coniferous forests, fire frequency, fire growth, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel moisture, lightning, lightning caused fires, moisture, national parks, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, radiation, rate of spread, statistical analysis, subalpine forests, temperature, topography, vegetation surveys, wind
Prescribed fire is a tool used to manage vegetation in southern California. The nature and quantity of gaseous and particulate emissions have not been described for California chaparral. A study examining carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and particulate matter…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Ceanothus crassifolius, Quercus dumosa, Arctostaphylos glandulosa, air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, experimental fire, fire management, firing techniques, gases, ignition, live fuels, moisture, particulates, Quercus dumosa, range management, scrub, season of fire, shrubs
n this chapter we describe the results of airborne studies of smokes from 17 biomass fuel fires, including 14 prescribed fires and 3 wildfires, burned primarily in the temperate zone of North America between 34° and 49°N latitude. The prescribed fires were in forested lands…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: North America, trace gases, smoke particulates, biomass fires
Planning prescribed fires for optimal periods which results in emissions reduction is an extremely useful air quality management technique. New information suggests that one more useful tool in smoke management may involve using the capacity of the atmosphere to remove smoke…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: air quality, emission reduction, smoke management, biomass burning, cloud scavenging
This work introduces remote sensing of biomass burning emissions using high-resolution Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) absorption spectroscopy over open paths in smoke plumes from biomass fires. There are several advantages to this type of smoke composition measurement, which…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: remote sensing, biomass emissions, smoke measurements, biomass burning, smoke plumes, FTIR - Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: big sagebrush, smoke emissions, western juniper, emission factors
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: computer applications, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Pacific Northwest, prescribed fire planning, air resource management, air quality, computer program, fire management, forest management, fuel types, national forests, smoke behavior, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke emissions, prescribed fire emissions, PM10 emissions
A variety of potent air toxins are in the smoke produced by burning forest and range biomass. Preliminary data on firefighter exposures to carbon monoxide and formaldehyde at four prescribed burns of Western United States natural fuels are presented. Formaldehyde may be…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, firefighter health, CO - carbon monoxide, air toxins, formaldehyde
Slash burning is an integral tool of forest management in the Pacific Northwest. The purpose of this study was to determine if mass- ignited, high intensity fires had less fuel consumption than moderate intensity fires. There was 23 percent less woody fuel consumption in high…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: forest management, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, slash burning, fuel consumption, air quality, air temperature, broadcast burning, clearcutting, combustion, coniferous forests, diameter classes, duff, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, fuel types, Idaho, ignition, logging, Oregon, Montana, Pinus contorta, pine forests, lodgepole pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, sampling, slash, statistical analysis, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, woody fuels
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: brush, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, land management, leaves, openings, prairies, site treatments, smoke management, wildlife refuges, Wisconsin
The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) is using high intensity fire to perpetuate fresh-water marsh on Sanibel Island. Shrubs are invading the marsh because of the decreased hydroperiod. A policy of fire conclusion was followed until 1971 when a destructive wildfire…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Aquatic, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Casuarina equisetifolia, catastrophic fires, competition, conservation, disturbance, droughts, education, fine fuels, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, firebreaks, Florida, fuel accumulation, introduced species, invasive species, litter, marshes, nutrient cycling, plant communities, public information, shrubs, smoke management, species diversity (animals), wildfires