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BACKGROUND: During the summer of 2003 numerous fires burned in British Columbia, Canada. OBJECTIVES: We examined the associations between respiratory and cardiovascular physician visits and hospital admissions, and three measures of smoke exposure over a 92-day study period (1…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, particulates, British Columbia, Canada, fire management, forest management, smoke management, biomass smoke, cohort study, exposure assessment, particulate matter, population-based
The host selection process of most phytophagous insects can be described as a sequence of behaviors leading from landscape-scale habitat location to host-plant scale, microsite selection. For the whitespotted sawyer, Monochamus scutellatus (Say), a fire-associated xylophagous…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, smoke effects, wildfires, diameter classes, habitat suitability, insects, larvae, Cerambycidae, Coleoptera, Monochamus scutellatus, whitespotted sawyer, Picea mariana, black spruce, Quebec, Canada, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, Monochamus scutellatus, habitat location, host selection, forest fire, boreal forest
A summary report by Alaska Fire Service personnel on the record season of 2004 in Alaska, including statistics, smoke impacts, and research conducted during the fire season. Poster presentation at Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes Conference, Spokane, WA Nov. 17-19, 2004.
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: 2004 fire season, fire severity, AFS - Alaska Fire Service, climate change
Bushfire smoke has the potential to affect millions of people and is therefore a major public health problem. The air pollutant that increases most significantly as a result of bushfire smoke is particulate matter (PM). During bushfire smoke episodes, PM concentrations are…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: bushfire, Australia, public health, respiratory health, PM - particulate matter, PM10, wildfire
The Cooperative Agreement Between Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC) is an agreement addressing smoke from prescribed fires.
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords:
This study evaluates the effects of alternative fuels treatment options on wildfire acres, smoke emissions, and landscape composition, on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. It is part of the Pacific Southwest Research Station's 'Risk-Based Comparison of Potential Fuel Treatment…
Person: Schreuder, Schaaf, Wiitala, Weise
Year: 2004
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, fuel reduction treatments, landscape composition, beetle kill, forest succession modeling, white spruce, Picea glauca
Obtaining accurate measures of exposure to forest fire smoke is important for the assessment of health risk. Estimating exposure from air quality monitors is challenging because of the sparseness of the monitoring networks in remote areas. However, satellite imagery offers a…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke plume, satellite imagery, smoke exposure, algorithms, British Columbia, Canada, satellite data
Fire has played a major role in determining the distribution of plants across the Coastal Plain of the southeastern U.S. The extent of fire dependent ecosystems such as pond pine/high pocosin forest type has been reduced and wildland fire fuel loads have increased as a result of…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, biomass, blowups, catastrophic fires, coastal plain, cover type conversion, dead fuels, distribution, FIA, fire control, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire intensity, flame length, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel models, ground fires, health factors, land management, liability, live fuels, low intensity burns, Oregon, organic soils, pine forests, Pinus serotina, pocosins, population density, population ecology, rate of spread, smoke behavior, soil moisture, soil organic matter, soils, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildland fuels, ladder fuels
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, energy, evapotranspiration, fuel accumulation, gases, leaves, Manitoba, Oregon, overstory, Picea mariana, post fire recovery, precipitation, radiation, regeneration, species diversity (plants), succession, understory vegetation, NEE - net ecosystem exchange
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: bark, birds, coniferous forests, Dendroctonus, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, fuel loading, fuel moisture, herbaceous vegetation, insects, moisture, mortality, multiple resource management, national parks, Oregon, overstory, population density, season of fire, Sequoia, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, understory vegetation, FFS - Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
From the text (p.7-8) ... 'Lightning-ignited wildfires (lightning-fires) in the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve (GSWP), Florida, were characterized and modeled in relation to acreage burned and time since last burn (Fire Interval) as a function of weather, prescribed burn…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: artificial regeneration, burning intervals, central Florida, combustion, crown scorch, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, flowering, forest management, fuel moisture, GIS, herbaceous vegetation, histories, human caused fires, humidity, ignition, land management, landscape ecology, lightning, lightning caused fires, marshes, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, prairies, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), recreation related fires, season of fire, statistical analysis, suppression, swamps, temperature, watershed management, wetlands, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife refuges
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, croplands, cutting, deforestation, ENSO, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, GIS, grasslands, human caused fires, incendiary fires, Indonesia, land use, land use planning, landscape ecology, logging, mineral soils, mosaic, plantations, remote sensing, roads, shrublands, site treatments, slash, Sumatra, tropical forests, wildfires, LAND PREPARATION, TRANSMIGRATION SETTLEMENTS
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, aluminum, calcium, chemical compounds, chemistry, chlorine, copper, fire management, manganese, Montana, particulates, K - potassium, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, sodium, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, temperature, wildfires, wind, zinc
Better understanding is needed of what makes educational efforts most effective in increasing public support for wildfire management and mitigation efforts. Results of a mail survey of homeowners in Incline Village, Nevada, indicate that personalized contact is key in the…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: defensible space, public acceptance, education, Nevada, public attitudes, wildfire, homeowner perceptions, information sources, property damage, fire damage, fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire damage (property), fire intensity, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, light burning, escaped prescribed fires, smoke effects, surface fires, aesthetics, health factors, logging, partial cutting, population density, private lands, public information, thinning, Abies concolor, fire management planning, fuel management, land use, wildlife habitat management, coniferous forests
Forest fires are an integral part of the ecology of the Mediterranean Basin; however, fire incidence has increased dramatically during the past decades and fire is expected to become more prevalent in the future due to climate change. Fuel modification by prescribed burning…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: carbon balance, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Kyoto Protocol, Mediterranean, Portugal, Spain, Greece, France, Italy, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire size, fire suppression, fuel loading, rate of spread, wildfires, air quality, biomass, climate change, drought, statistical analysis, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Rocky Mountain Research Station from April-June, 2011. It includes series publications, science perspectives, journal articles, and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of forest management.
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, publications, research publications
The level of protection to fauna provided by tree cavities during wildland fires is not well understood. Here we present a model for estimating the transport of combustion gases into cylindrical, single-entrance cavities during exposures caused by different wildland fire…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cavity trees, fauna, cavities, field experimental fires, fine fuels, fire dependent species, surface fires, wildfires, CO - carbon monoxide, cavity nesting birds, gases, litter, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species, wind, Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpeckers, fire management, forest management, fuel management, wildlife habitat management, wildlife management
Fires in tropical forests release globally significant amounts of carbon to the atmosphere and may increase in importance as a result of climate change. Despite the striking impacts of fire on tropical ecosystems, the paucity of robust spatial models of forest fire still hampers…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, carbon emissions, Amazon, hot pixels, IPCC A2 scenario, REDD - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
Forest fires usually spread out of control very quickly. Fires that produce a lot of smoke are particularly challenging for the emergency services, because the source of the fire is then especially hard to find. A new radiometric sensor can pinpoint the heart of the flames, even…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire detection, radiometer
Alaskan forests used to be important players in Mother Nature's game plan for regulating carbon dioxide levels in the air. It's elementary earth science: Trees take up carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. But now, American and Canadian researchers report that climate change is…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire frequency, fire severity, carbon emissions, climate change, boreal forests, carbon sources
Fundamentals of Combustion Processes serves students as a textbook for an upper-division undergraduate and graduate level combustion course in mechanical engineering. The authors focus on fundamental theory of combustion and provide a simplified discussion of basic combustion…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, flames, chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, textbook
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Rocky Mountain Research Station from January-March, 2011. It includes series publications, science perspectives, journal articles, and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of forest management.
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: US Forest Service, publications, research publications
Wildland fire is a natural force that has shaped most vegetation types of the world. However, its inappropriate management during the last century has led to more frequent and catastrophic fires. Wildland fires are also recognized as one of the sources of CO2 and other…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: carbon dioxide emissions, Kyoto Protocol, Argentina, Patagonia, emissions mitigation, biomass growth
Fire in tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs) is not as rare as once believed. Andean TMCFs sit immediately below highly flammable, high-altitude grasslands (Puna/Páramo) that suffer from recurrent anthropogenic fire. This treeline is a zone of climatic tension where…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, carbon budget, peat soils, resprouting, Peru, montane cloud forests, Andes
Forest fires are can be fatal for firefighters owing to the phenomenon of eruptive fire. The hypothesis of this study is that biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) accumulate in the vicinity of the fire front. One of the factors required for an eruptive fire to take place…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: firefighter safety, France, blowup fires, BVOC - Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds, gas flow, fire case histories, blowup, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire size, firefighting personnel, flammability, fuel accumulation, rate of spread, wildfires, air temperature, gases, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, mortality, black pine, statistical analysis, Cistus monspeliensis, maritime pine, Pinus laricio, Pinus pinaster, Corsica, fire management, forest management, fuel management