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Smoke considerations for using fire in maintaining healthy forest ecosystems

From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, dead fuels, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire frequency, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, GIS, health factors, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, Larix lyallii, logging, Montana, natural resource legislation, Nevada, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, public information, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires

Clean air and healthy ecosystems: managing emissions from fires

After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, water quality, smoke modeling, pollutants, prescribed natural fire, wildfire, atmospheric dispersion, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, health factors, hydrocarbons, land management, logging, Madrean habitats, natural resource legislation, NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act, N - nitrogen, pollution, chance ignition prescribed fires, slash, smoke management, soils, US Forest Service, wind