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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 health and function of forest ecosystems throughout the world include periodic exposure to disturbances such as fire. Fire has been instrumental in the evolution of large segments of flora and fauna and in preventing fuel accumulations that resulted in extreme fire behaviour…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, flammability, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel models, live fuels, rate of spread, surface fuels, wildfires, fragmentation, grazing, invasive species, native species (plants), site treatments, soil erosion, thinning, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, smoke management, burn severity, community preparedness, decision support, forest thinning, live fuels, mechanical treatment, risk assessment, smoke transport
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 feasibility study has been carried out of the analysis of total condensate (at -50 °C) of smoke from smoldering combustion of wood. All of the phenol and furan components in the aqueous condensate were extracted into methylene chloride and the extract was analyzed by GC/MS.…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, combustion, combustion chambers, experimental fires, fire suppression, laboratory fires, lignin, Montana, mopping up, Pinus ponderosa, Populus trichocarpa, smoke effects, wood, wood chemistry
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safety databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Arizona, computer programs, fire control, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, human caused fires, incendiary fires, Massachusetts, rate of spread, wildfires
Fire-maintained pine barrens once covered more than 20,000 hectares in the Albany region on sand deposits associated with glacial Lake Albany. Today, urbanization and fire suppression have reduced the area to less than 1,000 hectares of pine barrens, which are dissected by…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Social Science, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: adaptation, barrens, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, fuel loading, histories, ignition, lightning, New York, pine barrens, pioneer species, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
We used a combination of field measurements and simulation modelling to quantify the effects of salvage logging, and a combination of salvage logging and pile-and-burn fuel surface fuel treatment (treatment combination), on fuel loadings, fire behaviour, fuel consumption and…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel reduction treatments, FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, salvage logging, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Oregon, pile burn, blowdown, windstorms, fire hazard reduction, flame length, fuel loading, heavy fuels, woody fuels, air quality, duff, elevation, lichens, litter, logging, mosses, overstory, population density, salvage, shrubs, size classes, storms, wind, windthrow, fire management, forest management, fuel management, sloping terrain
The air in the valley settles like a grey blanket, engulfing residents with lingering smoke for what could be days or weeks. The smoke might come from a wildfire being fought miles away, a prescribed burn, or a neighbor's woodstove or burn pile. The wind may sweep this low-…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: public opinion, smoke impacts, public perceptions, NWFSC - Northwest Fire Science Consortium
Even if you don’t live in an area prone to wildfires, your health may be threatened by smoke from fires raging in other parts of the country. New NRDC analysis shows that about two-thirds of the United States—nearly 212 million people—lived in counties affected by smoke…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, climate change, health impacts, PM2.5, community response
Despite its destructive capabilities, fire plays a vital role in the ecology of wildland habitats. Legal implications associated with the use or control of fire as a management practice include potential liability for damages caused by escaped fires and creation of smoke hazards…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, conservation, education, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, Florida, forest management, Georgia, Piedmont, plant communities, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wilderness fire management, wildlife habitat management
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
This is the third presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Pete Lahm, US Forest Service and George Broyles, US Forest Service discuss an emerging program and effort dealing with wildfire air quality response. This webinar originally aired…
Person: Lahm, Broyles
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighter health, smoke exposure, public health, superfog, air quality impacts, transportation safety
A discussion of the use of prescribed fire adjacent to populated areas. Presented by Glen Gillman at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management in Oklahoma City, February 2013.
Person: Gillman
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: public awareness, Texas, urban fire
Temperate peatlands represent a substantial store of carbon and their degradation is a potentially significant positive feedback to climate change. The ignition of peat deposits can cause smouldering wildfires that have the potential to release substantial amounts of carbon and…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, peat fires, wildfires, C - carbon, national parks, peat, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe, fire management, forest management, peatlands, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, carbon emissions, depth of burn, fire danger, fire severity, fuel consumption
We estimate future wildfire activity over the western United States during the mid-21st century (2046-2065), based on results from 15 climate models following the A1B scenario. We develop fire prediction models by regressing meteorological variables from the current and previous…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire danger rating, fuel loading, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, statistical analysis, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, fire management, forest management, fuel management, range management, coniferous forests, deserts, savannas, shrublands, wildfire, ensemble projection, fuel load, aerosol concentration
Sequestration of carbon (C) in forests has the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change by offsetting future emissions of greenhouse gases. However, in dry temperate forests, wildfire is a natural disturbance agent with the potential to release large fluxes of C into…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, ladder fuels, rate of spread, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, crowns, decay, population density, thinning, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, fire management, forest management, fuel management, coniferous forests, C - carbon, wildfire, fuel treatments
We used a replicated watershed experiment to determine the effects of site preparation burning on mixed hardwood ecosystems. Response measurements included nutrient cycling proecesses and site productivity, soil erosion and water quality, chemistry and quantity of smoke…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Appalachian Mountains, biomass, calcium, C - carbon, chemistry, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, plant growth, population ecology, post fire recovery, K - potassium, resprouting, seedlings, soil erosion, species diversity (plants), water, water quality, watershed management, watersheds, woody plants
Climate, vegetation, and fire are interrelated so that any change in one will affect the others. Increases in greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, are expected to increase average surface temperatures and alter precipitation patterns. These changes will alter numerous…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, biomass, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, deserts, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel types, gases, climate change, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, plant communities, plant growth, population ecology, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, radiation, rainforests, season of fire, shrublands, slash and burn, species diversity (plants), temperature, water, wildfires